35 Burst results for "Matt Gaetz"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Gratitude Is Owed to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz
"Watched that show last night with my jaw hitting the floor. 40,000 hours and incidentally, you got to hand it to the Matt Gaetz in the Marjorie Taylor greens and the sharp elbowed faction of the Republican Party that sort of forced Kevin McCarthy's hand on this. Remember what was going on when he was trying to get the votes to be speaker? They said you're going to release the January 6th surveillance videos to the media or we're not voting for you. And this was one of speaker McCarthy's concessions. So those controversial Republicans are owed a lot of, I think gratitude for the public getting to see with our own eyes, much of what happened on January 6th.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Rep. Matt Gaetz: Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding Ukrainian Pensions?
"Play Matt Gaetz again, pointing out in a congressional hearing this week how ludicrous it is that Biden has committed to the American taxpayer funding the pensions of Ukrainians. April 2022, President Biden is describing the supplemental funding that we're providing to Ukraine. He says, quote, it's also going to help schools and hospitals open. It's going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people. So they have something something in their pocket. So help me understand how U.S. taxpayers paying for pensions in Ukraine is a good idea for our country. I would defer you to other parts of our government, the Department of Defense doesn't have a role in pensions in Ukraine. You're a senior Biden administration official. The president said that it's really important that we keep funding the pensions in Ukraine. I would observe that the U.S. Census Bureau says that in 2022, the U.S. pension shortfall is $1.4 trillion. So while we have a corrupt Ukrainian government while we have our watchdog here who can't say that we followed the law and in use monitoring, we have the president of the United States saying we need to fund pensions in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the pensions of our fellow Americans are in greater jeopardy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Washington Remains Overwhelmingly Pro-War in Ukraine
"Yellen made a surprise visit to Ukraine, not east Palestine. Not actually our own country. Ukraine might as well be part of America now. We're spending more money on Ukraine and it sure seems we're spending on our own citizens, play cut three, please. Let me make clear the United States and the allies are support for Ukraine will be lasting and is unconditional. We stand with Ukraine and want to support Ukraine. Of course, is the immediate need for military equipment. In addition to that, they need ongoing economic support. We've already provided $13 billion in support and there's an additional 10 billion that we expect to provide over the next 9 months. Unbelievable. Matt Gaetz unconditional Matt, no matter what they do, unconditional your thoughts. The only love that is truly unconditional. Seriously. Love between the Biden administration and Ukraine where we are currently now funding the pension liabilities within the Ukrainian government. We have firefighters and police in this country in dilapidated areas where they wonder whether or not their pensions will be fully funded. But we can do that in Ukraine. Tomorrow, we will have leading officials at the Department of Defense before the House armed services committee, and they will lay out their vision on Ukraine. And we will hear a lot of that information. One of the witnesses will be the DoD inspector general. And this is the question I will ask. Have we followed U.S. law with the monitoring end to end of U.S. material and munitions? And military equipment. And to Ukraine. And if they are honest, the answer will be no.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Matt Gaetz on James O'Keefe and the Project Veritas Circus
"So Matt, you mentioned something that I said at an event that you were at. We both spoke in the same evening with a lot of the freedom caucus people taking off the chessboard. People off the chess board. And I know this resonated with you. I believe that sinister forces are trying to take James O'Keefe off the chess board. Do you have some thoughts on this as someone who just went through a difficult two years understanding and recognizing and acknowledging the importance of James O'Keefe, how should we think about the project veritas circus? Well, here's how I think of James O'Keefe. Whatever assets I acquire in my life, I am putting in my will that a portion of it is going to go to whatever organization that James O'Keefe leads. One because I'm certain he's going to outlive me, but also because there is a type of journalism that only James O'Keefe right now is inspiring and encouraging and curating within the media landscape. This gorilla journalism that finds truth in the most uncomfortable of places and works then to expose it. If there's no James O'Keefe, that entire vertical goes away and I think it would be a very bad thing for our democracy or for a republic if that were to occur. Now, what I think is happening at project veritas is that there is a veneer, a construct that somehow James has done something wrong and they're using that to try to seize control. And it just looks like a power grab to me and I am entirely on the side of James O'Keefe as our countless whistleblowers who trusted him with their story. You think about the trust that that has to ignore. And you know, let me tell you something. One of the things that the project veritas board put out to criticize James O'Keefe is an event that he held in Miami that was like a musical celebration of the story of project veritas. And I got to meet the person at that event who was the journalist who got the admission from CNN that they were lying about me and propagandizing my life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Can you just tell us how maybe not your lawyers, but lawyers in general thought what you did was a mistake. You went public, you did interviews, you spoke at turning point events. You know, we had you throughout the entire deal and we were proud of that because we stood by you. Can you just can you just add some context of why you made that decision? Because the traditional legal advice is keep your head down, don't say anything, and then wait the 5 to 7 years. Why did you choose not to do that? Well, I remember in the days in April in 2021, when I would turn on the television and every channel every hour was a different lawyer saying, oh my gosh, you know, Matt Gaetz is making the worst mistake he could ever make by denying these things and by challenging anyone to check his travel records by saying that there was this extortion plot that had really undergirded a lot of the lies that were being falsely shared. And I just remember thinking to myself, I am not going to let them do this to me. I have seen too often people retreat from the fight. And to be honest, Charlie, I drew a great deal of inspiration from president Trump that when they were trying to smear him as a Russian agent when they had the Steele dossier allegations to try to distract and discredit a remarkable movement that he led. He kept his eye on the prize. And he viewed the success of the American people as the principal objective. And he was willing to punch back when there were people lying about him. There was an instance where an FBI agent showed up at a disabled veterans home at night unannounced who had previously worked for me and the FBI agent had all these crazy allegations that they thought it occurred at my congressional office. And this disabled veteran who worked for me said, that was nuts that couldn't be farther from the truth. And then when the FBI agent was challenged as to what the basis was for this, the agent told my former employee, well, we heard it from a journalist from a media reporter. And so you had this feedback loop with the FBI, the Department of Justice, and media outlets who were trying to destroy me. And Bannon called it divine intervention when project fair toss under the bold leadership of James O'Keefe got tape of a CNN director saying that they were purposefully propagandizing my life because I'm effective. And I remember actually Charlie talking to you one time. We were at Mar-a-Lago and you walked up to me, you know, you put your hand on my shoulder and you said, Matt, your strategy is total and full aggression. I wish you the best, but they never really stopped coming for you. And I absolutely believe that you see the full field here. I don't view this as a conclusory moment on anything. I understand that based on my high profile work based on the importance of it based on the agencies of government that I have jurisdiction over because I'm on the judiciary committee. There's going to be just kind of an endless effort to discredit people who hold the views I do. But we always end up being proven right in the end, right? They said we were Putin's lawyers because Trump wasn't a Russian agent. And they said we were tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists when we said that COVID originated from the Wuhan lab. And now just this past weekend, you see major reporting from The Wall Street Journal saying, we were in fact right about that too. So there's a life cycle of kind of the lies and the nonsense we hear. Like, first, it's a conspiracy theory. Then it's Russian disinformation. Then it's true, but the other side was justified and finally you should be thanking them for the experience all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"That's why we are here. Brought to you by the lone experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage at Andrew and Todd dot com. Joining us now is a vindicated man someone who was targeted by the Department of Justice. They were trying to take him out. And they failed. Matt Gaetz from Florida's first congressional district host of the firebrand podcast. Congratulations, Matt. You are vindicated. Celebrate with us and tell us your side of the story. I guess the rumors of my political death were greatly exaggerated. The last two years have been challenging. And instead of facing false allegations by running and hiding, instead of doing what a lot suggested and refusing to talk about anything, you know, I very clearly laid out what had occurred in this matter. And people were trying to extort my family for money. There was a media campaign to endlessly repeat false allegations about me in order to try to take me off the chessboard. And I didn't do those things. I didn't go check in like as John fetterman's roommate at Walter Reed. I went on tour. I told people what we believed, the work that we had to do going forward in a Republican majority that we had to keep the America first fire burning in the United States Congress. I had great allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan by my side, continuing to make the case to the American people that Trump ism was alive and well and that president Trump was the most inspirational leader in our movement. So I got through it, got the good news. It was kind of odd Charlie. I was in a whistleblower transcribed interview. Someone who had worked for the FBI and was there telling us the concerns that they had in some very, very concerning allegations about the FBI's leadership and their conduct when I got the news that the Department of Justice was concluding. So I have a couple of thoughts on this, Matt. Again, you handled this uniquely..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Joining us now is a vindicated man someone who was targeted by the Department of Justice. They were trying to take him out. And they failed. Matt Gaetz from Florida's first congressional district host of the firebrand podcast. Congratulations, Matt. You are vindicated. Celebrate with us and tell us your side of the story. I guess the rumors of my political death were greatly exaggerated. The last two years have been challenging. And instead of facing false allegations by running and hiding, instead of doing what a lot suggested and refusing to talk about anything, you know, I very clearly laid out what had occurred in this matter. And people were trying to extort my family for money. There was a media campaign to endlessly repeat false allegations about me in order to try to take me off the chessboard. And I didn't do those things. I didn't go check in like as John fetterman's roommate at Walter Reed. I went on tour. I told people what we believed, the work that we had to do going forward in a Republican majority that we had to keep the America first fire burning in the United States Congress. I had great allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan by my side, continuing to make the case to the American people that Trump ism was alive and well and that president Trump was the most inspirational leader in our movement. So I got through it, got the good news. It was kind of odd Charlie. I was in a whistleblower transcribed interview. Someone who had worked for the FBI and was there telling us the concerns that they had in some very, very concerning allegations about the FBI's leadership and their conduct
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Vindication of Matt Gaetz
"Joining us now is a vindicated man someone who was targeted by the Department of Justice. They were trying to take him out. And they failed. Matt Gaetz from Florida's first congressional district host of the firebrand podcast. Congratulations, Matt. You are vindicated. Celebrate with us and tell us your side of the story. I guess the rumors of my political death were greatly exaggerated. The last two years have been challenging. And instead of facing false allegations by running and hiding, instead of doing what a lot suggested and refusing to talk about anything, you know, I very clearly laid out what had occurred in this matter. And people were trying to extort my family for money. There was a media campaign to endlessly repeat false allegations about me in order to try to take me off the chessboard. And I didn't do those things. I didn't go check in like as John fetterman's roommate at Walter Reed. I went on tour. I told people what we believed, the work that we had to do going forward in a Republican majority that we had to keep the America first fire burning in the United States Congress. I had great allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan by my side, continuing to make the case to the American people that Trump ism was alive and well and that president Trump was the most inspirational leader in our movement. So I got through it, got the good news. It was kind of odd Charlie. I was in a whistleblower transcribed interview. Someone who had worked for the FBI and was there telling us the concerns that they had in some very, very concerning allegations about the FBI's leadership and their conduct
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ben Bergquam on the Anarchic State Once Known As the US-Mexico Border
"What did you see on the border last evening? Well, unfortunately, I saw more of the same the open borders that Joe Biden and the left and secretary Marcus have invited into our country, but we are seeing a few shifts. One of those being China, huge numbers from China coming across and in speaking with Matt Gaetz, congressman Matt Gaetz, again, it was an honor to be out there with him last night, one of the hardest working congressional representatives we have one of the biggest fighters we have out there. But these huge numbers from China, large numbers still coming from the Middle East all over. And the moral of the story is nothing that the left is doing, nothing that Joe Biden is doing is doing anything to slow down this unprecedented invasion of our country. By countries that are hostile to our nation, whether or not the Chinese nationals that are coming in want to get away from the CCP or communism or they're coming as bad actors working for the CCP, then we really don't know that. And that's the reason why we have to have a secure border and legal immigration processes, which have just been completely undermined by this current administration. Play
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Laura Ingraham: A Lot of Republicans Pretend to Be Conservative
"And a lot of these Republicans are pretending to play conservative when they're really on the side of China or globalization or globalism. And against their own electric. No, from the relief factor dot com studios. Here's Mike Gallagher. Sounds a pretty profound thing that Laura Ingraham said last night when she was interviewing congressman Matt Gaetz. A lot of Republicans say they're conservative, but they're really on the side of China and globalism. Isn't she right? We're seeing it play out in real time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Welcomes Kimberly Fletcher of Moms for America
"Stories of the last couple of years is how the Biden regime targeted moms and school boards calling them domestic terrorists, the new Republican Congress is going to get to the bottom of this and hopefully people will be held accountable. Joining us now is Kimberly Fletcher from moms for America Kimberly. Welcome back to the program. Hey, great to be here, Charlie. Kimberly, you know all about this and a lot of the moms you work with were actually targeted. You've dealt with this personally. Walk us through it and also tell us what do you think this new Republican Congress should do to get to the bottom of it? Well, I would really like to see the questions that have been asked in the past and ignored being answered. I think the fact that we now have control of the Congress, we have a better power play on getting those answers. I really like what Jim Jordan is doing in Matt Gaetz coming out and putting the pressure on the various organizations to answer those questions. We're dealing with it on the national level as well as the local level. And what's really exciting about what we're at now is for years I had to try and convince people that everything was local. And I don't have to convince people anymore. And while a lot of people are really depressed about the last election, it was the best, most successful election in my lifetime because moms came out in droves and the biggest question they asked was, do we have to vote for every office on the ballot for my ballot to count? And they came in and they voted the down ballot. They voted the things closest to them. School board city council sheriff. And when they had people that they believed in who they felt would stand for them for us, our principles and our values and protecting our kids and our schools, then they voted for them on those levels too, which is why Florida did so well in governor desantis did so well because
The Charlie Kirk Show
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Matt Gaetz, what is your reaction then to Mike Pence being investigated by the for the document mishandling, that's what's your reaction? I've never really been here for the document drama. I said back in September, Charlie, that probably every presidential library in the country and every library collected by presidents, vice presidents, secretaries of state, probably there's some lack of compliance with some technical provision of the records act. Now, if these Biden documents have to do with burisma or China and they were at the Biden pen center that was funded by China, I mean, there's an over half $1 million donation to the Biden pen center directly from an entity that runs China's thousand talents program, which our own intelligence community has assessed is part of their intellectual property theft regime. Run by the Chinese Communist Party. So if it has to do with those substantive matters, then all bets are off and it's treason. It would be treason of Joe Biden to take classified documents and give them to Chinese operatives or our operatives paid for by China for money to the Biden pen center. Let's be very clear about that. But if this is like, you know, some correspondence or some briefing materials from yesteryear that never had any relevance at the point at which they were taken out. I don't think that this is like, you know, the crime of the century, whether they're talking about Trump or Biden or Pence. Matt Gaetz, 30 seconds remaining, your thought on Adam Schiff running for the United States Senate seat in California. Well, I guess not being on the intelligence committee gives Adam Schiff a little more time. That's going to be a very interesting field. Katie Porter has entered the field and remember California has become such a machine state. There hasn't been a real open opportunity for a Senate seat like this. Adam Schiff is my least favorite member of Congress. He is the least ethical member of Congress. He should be defeated in the primary, if not that, the general. But it would be interesting to see ro Khanna run for the U.S. Senate, right? I mean, he's somebody who works with Republicans on populist issues. He obviously disagrees with us on more issues than that, but hey, ro Khanna will at least take a phone call if you're an independent minded, if you're a Republican. And if you have an idea that he thinks he can work with you on to save the country. So I'd love to see Khan I get in that race and whoop shift. Very good. Matt, thank you so much. Talk to you soon. Appreciate it. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email me your thoughts is always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thanks so much for listening. And God bless. For more, on many of these stories and news you can trust. Go to Charlie Kirk dot com..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Hey everybody, Tina Charlie Kirk show. We talk about the RNC race. Also we play a piece of tape on my conversation with governor Ron DeSantis full interviews soon to be posted. That and so much more is always you can email me your thoughts, freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Matt Gaetz also joins us as well and get involved with turning point USA at TP USA dot com. Buckle up everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running The White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job, building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, turning point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage for personalized loan services you can count on, go to Andrew and Todd dot com, the wonderful Andrew and Todd dot com. Typically, I am not in favor of regime change. You know, typically I think that it's wrong to try to go in and try to replace one leader and say that you know that things can work better than the other. It didn't work well in Libya didn't work well in Syria didn't work well in Iraq, but this is a regime change that I completely and totally support. It's a generational opportunity. I know a lot of you support Mike lyndell love Michael lindell. I'm behind Mike lindell. I'm also behind harmeet Dylan. I'm behind change whoever ends up being the opposition candidate. I am going to be 100% and enthusiastically behind, whomever that is. 98% of our attendees that came to the turning point action event at America fest back in December 98% of them said that they want change at the Republican National Committee. Now, some of you are probably wondering, Charlie, why are you focusing so much on the RNC race? For what reason are you focusing on the GOP? Does it really matter? And the answer is yes, it does matter. The FEC, the federal election commission, which is the federal body that regulates elections. Has some very specific provisions that state that national party committees are able to follow. That allow them to do certain activities, coordination efforts, with campaigns and with candidates that outside super PACS that outside other organizations are not able to do. So for example, we run turning point action, turning point action is growing Tyler boyers doing a great job of running it. It is a mighty force. We knock on a lot of doors. We do our best to try to move the dial, but all things being equal turning point action is four to $5 million operation, nothing massive compared to the $500 million that Soros and these other people pump into some of these super PACS. But at turning point action, we, it is forbidden for us at turning point action to share data, resources, messaging, information with candidates with campaigns. So for example, if you have dog catcher running for Senate in let's just say Joe Smith running for Senate in Wyoming, turning point action, we are not able to talk to that candidate about strategy. We're not able to share data. We're not able to share best practices. We have to operate as what is called an outside group. Now, outside groups can still make a big difference. But it is forbidden by law for us to be able to pick up the phone and have a meeting and say, hey, here's some data..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Republicans Are Getting Their Committee Assignments
"For example, a number of red meat Republicans are being given all kinds of plum assignments on important House committees, Lauren boebert, go sir, gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, are all going to be serving on judiciary, oversight, the House oversight committee is launching a myriad of investigations and on the house oversight committee will be Lauren bobert, Marjorie Taylor green Paul gosar. Kevin McCarthy is off to a great start. And the establishment class is mortified. They don't know what to do. They don't know whether to wine their fan of your scratch their watch. I just don't know. They thought maybe Kevin McCarthy would go all Mitch McConnell on him. But he's not. He's not.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Discuss the UniParty's Grab for Our Freedom
"Welcome back, talk to my Johnson miraculous here from Texas show. John, don't you find it at least interesting that Naomi wolf, who is, was very politically liberal during the Bush administration. She was pointing out precisely the same things that you were pointing out. And people like me were stupidly drifting along with the Republican herd and not seeing the dangers inherent in what we now know is the uni party and the deep state what they were doing. What George Bush and Cheney and company were doing was not consonant with the American founders vision, but the Republicans went along with it. Because one of them, we were panicked and they used 9 11 to panic us into giving up our freedoms. George Bush, one of the only true things the man ever said was that a bin Laden and the Islamists hate us for our freedoms. But unfortunately, bush was, you know, the figurehead of the movement to revoke those very freedoms and to create a deep state that the deep state as we saw what it did to the president of the United States in office. What they did to Donald Trump. He could not control them. What they did to Matt Gaetz to Devin Nunez. When he tried to investigate the Russian collusion hoax, they turned all their power on him and made him seem like a Russian agent of influence. Congress can't stop them. The president can't stop them. The courts can't stop them. The Patriot Act and I did warn about this in 2006 in my entry in the war on terror in American conservatism and encyclopedia. It's a 900 page book. I contributed the entry on the Iraq War and the war on terror and a couple other things. I said, this is not so much a repeal of the constitution as of the Magna Carta.
The Officer Tatum Show
Joy Behar Says "We Don't Think Biden Is A Liar And A Thief
"Before I go back to what the house accomplished and what Biden was doing. I want to play some audio clips for you. This is your favorite liberal actually probably not, but we'll just say that for the sake of the show, joy behar. Joy behar of the view, this is, see, I want you to, this is what you got to understand. This is very damning news for the Biden administration. Why they're getting it out now, maybe they wanted to get past the election. Maybe they want to let it out before the 2024 election cycle because he says he's running. Maybe that's what they want to do. Maybe they want to sabotage, maybe it's sabotage. Maybe somebody in the Democratic Party wants to throw Joe Biden under the bus. It's fascinating to me that this is coming out now. But here's what joy behar had to say about it in comparison to Trump's raid at Mar-a-Lago, audio clip number two, pop up or Sean. I think that what you just said is right, that there are differences in what happened. Yes. But it's not good. Well, we all know that Trump is a liar and a thief. You know? Who knows? So it's not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don't think that Biden is a liar, and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt. That's partly what's going on. But what I think also is going on, no matter what the truth of it is, will be. They will spin it, bobble head and Marjorie Taylor, and that crowd Matt Gaetz, you think they're not going to spin this that is just as bad as Trump, and so the lie gets out there. People believe it just like that Donaldson person, whatever his name is. What's his name? Byron donalds? I saw him also. He was at the fight on the floor too. He was nominated for speaker at number. By two people. He's the new 15 round. Is that the lying has been so invasive? So ubiquitous. That no one will believe the truth anyway. Yeah, no one will believe the truth, including joy behar.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Rep. Matt Gaetz Describes the Latest Rules Package
"I have several questions, but the rules package that passed yesterday. Was it a carbon copy of what was agreed to in the negotiations so far? So there are two major differences from where we were at the beginning of the week to where we ultimately ended up on the rules package first, the motion to vacate, reduced from a 5 member threshold to a one member threshold critical accountability tool, second feature of that, the church commission so that we can really focus on that in the rules. Is that okay, we had a guest yesterday that was not in rules package. Okay, so Matt, is it fair to say that if these rules were in place, the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill would not have passed as it was designed. Absolutely. It would have violated the single subject rule that exists in over 45 of our state legislatures, but not in the United States Congress. And many of the amendments that pulled that terrible piece of legislation together would have failed on Germany grounds. Now, your amendment actually has to be relevant to the underlying Bill to be considered. I know that sounds wonky, but just this last Congress, the national defense authorization act wasn't even a stand-alone bill at the end, it wasn't amendment to a water infrastructure Bill. Earlier in my career in Congress, we had to take one vote that was the farm Bill and related to war powers in Yemen. And these things ought to be considered separately, a serious country would not pair things that are not germane together and would not consider this as huge a single subject.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Matt Gaetz Is Optimistic About the GOP's Ability to Work Together
"Boy, I want to know exactly what was said between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and no better person to tell us than Matt Gaetz himself Matt. I will say on air what I texted you, and I said this to chip Roy, I was skeptical last week. However, you guys were able to negotiate a fabulous deal. Congratulations. In fact, you said on air, I am running out of stuff to ask for joining us now, is Matt Gaetz Matt. Welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Charlie. And sometimes you got to drive a hard bargain to change an institution as intractable as the House of Representatives, but I think we're in a better place. And we actually have more teamwork and unity forged by fire. I've never been more optimistic about the ability of the house to work together. We got our rules passed. The moderates didn't jump out of the bucket and that's going to be a good thing. Not just for this Congress, but beyond. I mean, members of Congress, we stay here for a few terms and speakers usually last an average of about 5 years, but rules once baked in are frequently enduring. And we hope that these are
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Deal of the Century With Rep. Chip Roy
"Will admit I was a skeptic, but I kept an open mind and definitely an open line. And one of the people that deserves a ton of credit and overwhelming amount of credit was one of the lead negotiators that helped bring the House rules, the let's just say demands is probably too strong of term. There requests to completion and to now passage. And that is chip Roy, who joins us now. Congressman Roy, thank you so much. You and I were chatting late some of those nights and I said, what is the plan? What is the plan? And you walked me through it and you said, hey, we're not making this about Kevin. We're making this about rules. We're making this about concessions. And it seems as if the rules package passed yesterday. Just walk us through your take from last week and some of the victories that are now no longer abstract, but are now realities. Well, Charlie, thanks and thanks for, you know, trying to walk through this. I think objectively, you know, highlighting some of the concerns and like, hey, how are you guys going to get this done? But also not just taking in two by four to us and saying that, you know, hey, you guys are clowns. You're crazy. We're terrorists as some people called you, which is just yeah, and someone the conservative movement, you know, use those kinds of terms. And you were pretty objective about it. I appreciate that. Look, go back to the election. It was a narrow margin, narrow victory. There were a handful of members that are fairly public now that were at least 5. There were a few more than that, I would tell you who basically said well, we can't get behind Kevin. And so then we started having conversations about we need to do. And I'm not going to give the whole TikTok because we don't have enough time. But at the end of the day, we put forward on December 8th, a list of requests you choose your words. What we believe were central to anyone who would be speaker. If
The Charlie Kirk Show
MTG and Charlie Discuss a Very Interesting Phone Call...
"There was a very interesting phone call that took place and some of the holdouts in my we're losing support amongst the people that I communicate with. So I was communicating with some great grassroots patriots, some big donors that were with some of the holdouts because they were getting some information about a blow up of some conversation all that. But then they said, listen, if it's Friday evening and you're still voting for somebody that has no chance to be speaker, and my theory is on the 14th round of voting that there was a miscommunication that somebody thought the threshold was something that it wasn't and that this is my working theory that they actually thought that it was going to pass. Is that correct Marjorie? Because it didn't look like it was a triumphant thing. And then Kevin walks over to Matt Gaetz and they kind of have a somewhat of a heated conversation and then Mike Rogers comes over and like lunges at Matt Gaetz and somebody has to pull him back and in some ways it was actually transparently real because that okay, wow, this is not theatrics, but in some sense it actually kind of was. But then you started to make phone calls and so is it true that you then called Donald Trump and started to try to pass the phone around to some of the holdouts? Walk us through that. Yes, well, and you're so smart, Charlie. Wow, great, great. You did a good job of breaking that down. And that is, in fact, what was happening, you know, I talked to president Trump very frequently. I will, I will never back away from my loyalty to president Trump. I want him back in The White House. He's the only guy I'm supporting for 2024. And he is in fact the leader of the Republican Party. His early endorsement and support for Kevin McCarthy helped us hold the 201 Republicans supporting and voting for Kevin McCarthy the entire week. No one fell away. And president Trump had a big, big part in role in the end of that. And the 20 that were holding out never forget these were all president Trump endorsed candidates. They have read the mega train the entire time. In their careers, most of them have and the new members, the new freshmen, they came in because of president Trump and his strong endorsement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Kevin Had to Make a Lot of Promises to House Conservatives
"On our emails, people are pretty upset. They say never a deal should not have been struck, you know, this was a total fraud. I disagree. I trust the negotiation, even Matt dates said he ran out of stuff to ask for. Matt Gaetz said, I got nothing else to ask for. There's a fair amount of positive emails as well, but I want to keep on hearing from you freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com because the moderates have power too. You have to remember that. It's not just the 20 holdouts that had power for a limited time. The moderates were preparing to strike back. Someone said Charlie stopped calling the moderates, call them Democrats. Okay, they could be rhinos. They could be Biden Republicans. They could be whatever you want to call them. They were preparing to strike back. For example, Nancy mace went on television and said that I don't think I'm going to vote for the rules package, or I don't know how I'm going to vote on the rules package. The rules package, by the way, is going to be an 80 to 100 page bill that will be voted on in the next day or two, that crystallizes all of these concessions. So for example, many of you said, well, Charlie, how do we trust them? How do we trust them? There is no trusting. If McCarthy is going to be good for his word, then all of this will be summarized in that 80 to 100 page rules package. If not, they're not going to vote for it and the deal will be dead. And since there is now a one person, there's now a one threshold, the vacate the chair, we will restart. So McCarthy is going to be forced to be good for his word. It's not a matter of trust. Once that rules package passes and it is put into ink, it doesn't matter if you trust somebody or not, it becomes the standard operating procedure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Walks Through the Newly-Made House Deal
"Is Nancy mace, who went on television yesterday and said, I don't know if I'm going to vote for the rules package. The rules package is the whole enchilada that the freedom caucus negotiated last week. So the deal that we're about to go through the concessions we went through. If the moderates don't vote for that on the floor when it comes forward, then it effectively blows up the entire speakers race. And we might have to start all over again. You can only push and negotiation so far until the deal blows up. And I want to give credit to chip Roy and give credits on a paulina give credit to gosar. Give credit to all of them. This is Nancy mace, the moderates play cut 12. How are you going to work with these folks to get anything done for the American people? It's going to be very difficult. Matt Gaetz is a fraud. Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week, he sent out a fundraising email. What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions. I don't support that kind of behavior. Yeah, you just support obedience to the regime. We got that Nancy. Thanks for shopping. There's another piece of tape though where she says she might not even vote for the rules package. Now you might say, oh, who cares? That could obliterate very serious concessions that were brokered thanks to these courageous holdouts. Again, I was skeptical of the strategy. I was skeptical because I thought the moderates were going to blow this up. I thought Don bacon and Tony Gonzalez and Nancy mace were going to blow this up a lot earlier. They were starting to threaten that finally on Friday. Now, what are these concessions? First and foremost, concession number one, adding conservative freedom caucus members to the House rules committee. Now you don't hear very much about the House rules committee. It's the machinery of Congress. It's kind of where the sausage is made. It's the behind the scenes type work. Well, the rules committee decides whether the house will vote on legislation at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
After 15 Rounds of Voting, Kevin McCarthy Has Finally Been Elected
"Late Friday evening going into Saturday morning, a deal was struck for Speaker of the House. The 20 holdouts negotiated a fabulous deal. And I will be very honest with you, as many of you who watch and listen to this program with regularity, I was skeptical. And I was skeptical for good reason, and I'm gonna prove that my skepticism was rooted in a real threat, but these holdouts got us a terrific deal. They pushed it just far enough with real demands. Serious asks of what success looks like, and these are patriots. They're not terrorists as some people on television called them. Dan Crenshaw called them. Narcissistic, insurgents, sociopathic enemies. This is all nonsense. These are patriots that showed in the end that they were willing to negotiate in good faith. Now, these concessions led to real substantive rule changes if the rules package can indeed pass in the next day or two. We're going to talk in great detail of what that means, but we must realize that on late Friday evening, the kind of forces that we're holding out, everyone from Andy Biggs to Eli crane to Matt rosendale to Lauren boebert to Matt Gaetz to Anna paulina Luna. They were pushing and pushing and pushing for real rules changes, but there was a rumbling that began to surface. And that rumbling was from the moderate wing. The moderate wing that consists of people like Nancy mace and Tony Gonzalez and Dan Crenshaw. And Burgess Owens, people that are very much in the establishment of the Republican Party and they were getting and Don bacon. They were getting very angry at Matt Gaetz and Lauren boebert and Andy Biggs and the people that were trying to strike a conservative deal that would represent voters.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Tagging them or classifying them as a danger to the community. Why? Because they're questioning teachers, they're questioning what's happening at school boards. And while this is going on, apparently there are some school board officials who are kind of you may say taking the law or taking the surveillance into their own hands. Here's a real creep. His name is Jan Michael Greenberg. And he was the president of the school board in Scottsdale, Arizona. So guess what? This guy, along with his dad, the two of them decided to spy on parents who are critical of the school board. There's actually a video believe it or not circulating on social media in which the two in which this guy, John Michael Greenberg is boasting about the fact that he is spying on these parents. And he says he has a private investigator who is, quote, writing down all of their license plates. So when the parents show up at the school board being they park their cars and evidently, this guy is a private investigator going through the parking lot and writing down the license plate of these parents. So they're stalking the parents basically. And not only that, apparently he was building a dossier on the parents, which contained their social security numbers, which contained where he could get them mortgage documents, divorce papers, personal background, and photographs of their children. So think about what this guy is doing. He's creating basically blackmail dossiers. Because he's able to say, listen, if you don't back down, I'm going to release this information to the media. It's going to be very unpleasant for you. I mean, it's a little creepy that this is happening in America. And so some parents found out about this and they were needless to say wild about it. And so there have been protests, parents have been demanding that this guy resign, in fact, they Farah's filed a complaint with the Scottsdale police department, which is investigate investigating whether any privacy laws have been broken. And here's the good news. The Scottsdale Arizona governing school board got together and they have removed this guy. They have fired them. And the vote was four to one, and guess who voted against it? Well, the guy who was fired and shot Michael Greenberg. I'm still for myself. I'm going to cast a dissenting vote. I think there was nothing wrong with maintaining this dossier on the parents. Why not? After all, call me big brother, you know? I mean, these people are creeps. They're freaks. And what is what makes the whole thing so strange as they, they're writing their moral high horse. This guy probably thinks, oh yeah, these parents are domestic terrorists. You know, I'm doing the lord's work. So these are people out of control, unchecked power. They don't respect the boundaries of their own authority. They forgotten that their deputized to act in the interest of the parents and their children. And the interests of the parents and the children do not diverge they're actually identical. But it's good news that this guy's been busted. It's good news that he's being investigated. I hope that in addition to being fired, he also gets prosecuted. The parents are rising up. The bureaucrats fear the parents and all of this bodes very well for the future of education in.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"I mean, it seems to me that in order to fortify the original and I think preposterous claims, this was a coup. This was an insurrection. The left has been really destroying the lives of these ordinary citizens, and many cases nonviolent. In some cases, these a guy who, yeah, they pepper sprayed the cops, but what we don't know is whether the cops pepper stray them and attack them first. What do we do at this point to unravel the narrative of January 6th? Not the false narrative, but to bring out the truth about January 6th and why is the Republican Party? I mean, with a few exceptions virtually all Republicans have run away from this particular topic, they're basically letting these guys die on the field. Is it part of your vision, not just to have a new strategy, but also kind of a new combative spirit that doesn't leave our doesn't leave people to rot in the way that evidently the Democrats feel comfortable within this case. Well, I'm no one's lawyer, I'm no one's defender each case ought to be decided individually and if people were violent, we have a criminal justice system to resolve that. What I object to is when there's a group of people being treated differently in sort of a one off as a consequence of politics. And I'm worried that's exactly what's happening with the January 6 detainees. We were in a recent Republican strategy session dinesh behind closed doors and leader McCarthy stood up before everyone and said the polling shows us that the American people believe that the treatment of the January 6th issue is partisan. And so please stop talking about it. Instead, let's go talk about inflation. And it begged the question, what leader McCarthy? Why do you think people see this as partisan? It's because we've been talking about it. It's because we've been showing folks how circumstances are different for people charged with the very same offenses or who committed the very same offenses in different parts of the country in different circumstances based on a different political perspective. And so I actually think we have to continue to show the American people that the radical dangerous left that is in charge right now. They don't want to just go after the January 6 detainees or a certain group of members of Congress. That's just the front end of the wave. Most of them want to destroy most of us. And I think having that frame will ignite that combative spirit to get out there in elections to win races, we need to win, and then when we take power through those democratic means to use the institution of Congress, not as a platform for theatrical committee performances, but instead dogged real oversight that can result in. I think a new appreciation for the danger that these people really pose to our nation. If I can sum up, and I'm not sure I'm using an actual real word, we actually need to depend the Republican Party, and I think you're helping us to do that. Thank you very much Matt gets for joining me on the podcast. Thanks so much, dinesh. It's a pleasure. Want to give a really cool Christmas present to your loved one? Well, how about giving them a new iPhone? That's right, your talk has iPhone 12 starting at just $479 through the end of the year, and yes, they have the 13s too..
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Debbie and I just saw a movie that's very powerful very inspirational. We want to tell you about it's from lionsgate, and it's also from the team that brought you the movie, I can only imagine. And this is a new film. It's called American underdog. It's based on the inspirational true story of Kurt and Brenda Warner. Now passed over by the NFL as a quarterback out of college, court Warner found himself stalking grocery shelves to help support Brandon her two kids, all while trying to hold on to his fading dream of becoming an NFL quarterback. Here's a short clip. Me ready for this moment. Destiny belongs to the underdogs. Thank you. This is an uplifting story a demonstrates anything is possible when you have faith, you have family, you have determination. It stars Zachary Levi Anna Paquin and Dennis Quaid. It's called American underdog, rated PG, parental guidance suggested in theaters everywhere, Christmas Day. And back with congressman Matt Gaetz, Matt you said at the last segment that, you know, that the guys at CNN, one of the reasons they hate you is because you're effective. I want to start by asking you a little bit about your temperament because it seems like a lot of Republicans, they're crouched under the desk metaphorically speaking, they're scared of the media. They wouldn't take the kind of heat that you've been subjected to even in the case we've been talking about. Do you think that you are just wired a little differently than the typical Republican or is there kind of a lesson that and this is the way that we Republicans can effectively take on the media and not be intimidated, which seems to be a natural stance of so many members of the GOP. Well, there is a school mentality among Republicans in Congress that if you don't swim too far away from the big fish, if you stay close, stay tight and don't get noticed much, then you're unlikely to be preyed upon by the lobby core by the media by the globalist institutions that are always seeing seeking to reinforce their agenda at the expense of the American people. Definitely, I am wired differently. I don't say that to be self laudatory. It's just an observation because I think that we actually don't have to sell out if we just do what we told people we would do when we ran for office. But unfortunately, the orientation into Congress tells you that if you give your calendar to the leadership, if you give your vote card to the lobby core, life is pretty good for you. And you don't really have to endure the risk that appends the activity that forces change. Now, there are many Republicans who believe that we're going to be taking the majority dinesh. And I want to make sure that we're worthy of the majority. It's likely Joe Biden will still be the president. I know Kamala Harris checks his pulse every time she shakes his hand, but it's likely he'll still be there in a Republican majority. And I don't believe that we ought to do a rerun of the John Boehner Paul Ryan strategy of just passing bills that we know Joe Biden will veto calling it a moral victory. I think they put the repeal of ObamaCare on president Obama's desk like 60 times. He vetoed it every time. And then they didn't have the guts when they had unified control of the government to put the same bill on president Trump's desk. So here's my competing alternative vision. Convert every committee into an oversight committee. Ensure that every chairman has investigations that are fair just proper, but that we are dogged and determined in pursuing them. In almost every committee in the Congress, we can see where the Biden administration is engaging in fraud and corruption. And rather than passing bills and holding hands and praising bipartisanship, we ought to go after it. We ought to, the armed services committee, where I serve, we ought to be going after the extent to which critical race theory and woke ism is harming readiness in our military and how vaccine mandates are harming readiness. In the judiciary committee, we could look at the department of justices targeting of parents who show up at school board meetings. Even in the education committee, they should be looking at the Biden center at UPenn that took all that money from the Chinese Communist Party, didn't disclose it. And then really ran their government in exile. I think that if we had that approach, we would actually excite our voters and show them that we will do something for them if we get the full control of the government that is necessary to act. What do you think mad of the idea? I mean, it seemed to me a very troubling precedent when Democrats got together and started voting to throw Republicans off the Republican seats off of committees. So Marjorie Taylor Greene, you're off your committees. Paul gosar, you're off your committees. Now, isn't it a fact that the only way to stop this kind of nonsense is for Republicans to not only do the same thing, but to escalate if Republicans have a majority, let's start by throwing ten Democrats off their committees, and they'll learn extremely quickly because it doesn't appear like appeals to justice or this is not the right thing to do guys or op eds in national review online about civility are really getting us very much, are they? No, I do think that they have likely made Marjorie Taylor Greene the most powerful member of the Republican Congress by throwing her off committees. If they had to do it again, they probably put her on all the committees to try to keep her busy so she wouldn't be engaging in some of the rigorous oversight that she's engaged in now exposing a lot of truths about the January 6th detainees. What Republicans ought to do? Why stop at ten? Dinesh, I think the Republican Speaker of the House ought to take suggestions from Democrats as to who that they would like on committees, but we ought to place all the Democrats on all the committees. By the way, that's not unprecedented. That's what we do in the state of Florida. In our Florida legislature, the minority makes recommendations to the speaker about who they'd like on various committees and the speaker can either accept those recommendations, reject them or modify them in part. And so if I were Speaker of the House, I would be very eager to take Nancy Pelosi's suggestions, but I would give her no power to put even a single of her members on committee without my approval because that's the way they've treated our members in some cases. What about the business about January 6th?.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"He represents the first district of Florida. He's a member of the House arms services committee and the House judiciary committee. And he's got a sort of appropriately named podcast. It's called the firebrand podcast, and this is really why the left is so nervous and I would say terrified of Matt Gaetz because he really is willing to step out there and be a firebrand. Let's start Matt. If I may, well, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining me really glad you're able to do this. I'm thankful dinesh, but I have to say it. How has it been so long? You know, you and I for years have been on panels together on other news networks, but it's certainly special to have occasion to join you on your podcast and you may not know this, but you have like a cult following among congressional hill staffers. They all live on your rumble channel so that you curate all the news of the day for them. So good to be among the guests. Well, this is awesome. Thank you so much for that comment. And hey, look, you know, the left has been going after you and they were salivating at this idea of, oh, we got Matt guess he's being investigated in a sex trafficking scheme and then we find out this was just a couple of weeks ago that a Florida businessman, this is Steven alford, has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down your dad for $25 million. I mean, it's an extremely bizarre case evidently he was claiming that he could get you a pardon. He was also claiming that he was going to do a rescue of Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who was who disappeared in Iran and is believed dead. I mean, you must feel a little bit in a surreal world with all these absurd allegations. Talk about the case briefly and a little bit about whether you feel at least a partial sense of indication that someone is being held accountable here. I know it must have sounded very strange to people who don't like me, even people who do like me when I told folks that these false allegations about me were rooted in an extortion effort to try to get $25 million out of my family to rescue an American spy named bob levenson, who they claimed was kidnapped kidnapped in Iran. And what struck me about that is so bizarre is that when Robert Mueller was the head of the FBI, they ran this exact same play on a Russian oligarch named Oleg deripaska. They went to Oleg deripaska and said, gosh, you might have some problems with the United States government. And you can solve those problems if you furnish $25 million to go rescue bob Levinson and deripaska actually did that. He forked over the $25 million, and then they blamed him in the Russia hoax anyway. And he there was no rescue of bob levenson. And so it was bizarre to see that same almost deep state madlib run against me. Of course, my family would never pay a bribe. We would never solicit anything like that at all. And so we went to some of the local folks in our local FBI in northwest Florida who we believed would be able to pursue this investigation. They did. They made an arrest. They obtained a guilty plea. I think there is more law enforcement activity to come in the extortion case. And I'm grateful for those individuals here. I'm glad they were able to do their work seemingly without manipulation from big DoJ in Washington because as you and I know there's a whole lot of politics emanating out of big DoJ and I don't say that in relation to my case, I say it in relation to the domestic terrorism tags that have been placed on parents who've shown up to school board meetings and we really deserve law enforcement in this country that simply investigates crimes and doesn't investigate politicians, political leaders or other just figures in society that they don't like. You imply in this particular case you're quoted saying that Alfred was an acting alone. DoJ's having him take the fall to protect their own. Do you think that in this case, well, not only were there more people involved, but was the government trying to use the case to discredit you and go after you. Certainly the media was running with all these accusations all hinging upon the premise that you are under some sort of investigation, where does that investigation if it even exists stand right now? Well, I don't know what I don't know. What I do know is that in the media amplification of these lies, we actually had a project veritas video obtained from a CNN director saying, look, you know, we know that this stuff about Gates will hurt him if we just keep running the stories and we're doing this because he's effective because he's so conservative because he gets in the way of the passing of the Democrat agenda. And so the motive is clear, the method is clear. The ongoing investigations of this extortion should occur, they should not be interrupted by anyone at the Department of Justice and what I know for a fact is that other people were involved. There was a former intelligence officer named bob Kent who quite literally delivered the extortion documents to my father and made the demands. And then there was a former DoJ official who was to receive the initial tranche of money for this bribe and those two individuals need to be held accountable. There's also the case of an individual named Jake Novak. He is the broadcast media relations director at the Israeli consulate in New York. And he there are text messages that the government of Israel has acknowledged our authentic where Jake Novak while he's employed by the Israeli consulate is talking to Scott Adams. The political commentator about how they're going to get my dad to fund this $25 million extraction of bob Levinson and I'm still very unclear as to what Jake Novak's involvement was. The government of Israel has come out and said, they were not involved in this. Anything mister Novak was doing, he was doing on his own time, but it certainly raises some serious questions about why an official at a foreign consulate was involved in a scheme that has now resulted in a guilty plea for extortion..
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"At an article in slate, the online magazine. It concludes with the following line. In the name of promoting religious liberty, scotus, the Supreme Court, is poised to repeal the establishment clause itself. Now, whenever I read this kind of over the top assertion, I know something great is about to happen. So in the left is freaking out and usually means that one of their cherished orthodoxies is about to be body slammed by the Supreme Court. And in this case, what's going to be body slammed? I think delightfully, is there absurd idea that the establishment clause, which basically says that the government can not quote establish religion. Quite clearly for the founders, what this meant is that you can't have a national religion. In fact, it didn't even mean that you couldn't have a state religion. Why? Because there were a number of states that had established religions at the time. The Anglican religion was established, so you had these establishments and the constitution was not addressed to them. So the idea that government has to be kind of officially hostile to religion. It can have nothing to do with religion. It can offer subsidies, but even though it's offering subsidies, those subsidies have to exclude religious institutions. This is all leftist fanaticism that has been imposed on the constitution. It's not what the constitution says, and it's not even what a kind of normal reading of the constitution would suggest. Now, there's a case I just went before the Supreme Court, the hearing is already over, and these hearings are just fun to watch. I don't often watch them live. I'll follow up by reading about the comments from the different justices. The level of just intelligent interrogation is really what is a pleasure to observe. This case is called Carson versus Macon. Basically, there's a law in Maine, which says that if you don't live near a public school, if you do, you have to go to your public school and but if you don't live near a public school, then you can claim a subsidy from the state that allows you to get transportation to go to the nearest public school if you want. So you can contract to go to the nearest public school and the state subsidy helps you to do that or you can go to a private school. You can and you can use the state subsidy to pay for the private school educational services now. Maine decided, this applies to private schools, but it doesn't apply to religious schools. Religious schools are excluded from this subsidy. And of course, in defending itself, main invokes, the establishment clause, the government is not allowed to quote establish religion as if extending a subsidy that's given to other students, and that allows you to go to private schools in the first place as if the no establishment clause requires the government to exclude religious schools. This is the left position. It's also the state of Maine's position. And main Deputy Attorney General Christopher Taub argues this case on behalf of Maine. Now on the other side, you have religious freedom attorneys, including our buddy Kelly shackelford, from first liberty, arguing in favor of these families that Wanda send their kids to a religious school. And it's very clear from the justice's remarks. And by the way, we're talking about all the 6 justices Republican nominees, including John Roberts, it seems very clear that they have no patience for the left's nonsense in this case. But it's also the way that they argue that I think makes this so interesting. By the way, there is an important precedent that left is always talking about. You've got to respect precedent. Well, it turns out that there is a precedent that precedent is called Espinosa versus Montana department of revenue 2002, in which case the Supreme Court basically said that you can have a private school choice program that includes religious schools. Here's justice Roberts. I'm quoting him. A state need not subsidize private education, meaning they don't have to subsidize it. But he goes, but one sustained decides to do so, it can not disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious. So what you're getting at here is the heart of the matter. Basically what justice Roberts is saying is you can not discriminate against religious schools. If you're offering a subsidy to private schools, it's gotta go to private schools of the parent choice, and that would include, let's say, not just a baptist school or a Catholic school, but quite frankly, even an Islamic school. Now, the case goes before the Supreme Court, this case, the main case. And the justices are really good in probing the issue very effectively. And here's Kavanaugh. The exclusion of religious people and religious institutions from public benefits solely because they are religious is itself discriminatory. So for Kavanaugh, this appears to be an open and shut case. Amy Coney Barrett makes a subtle point. She says, wait a minute. You know, you keep talking about how these religious values, the government can subsidize religious value. She goes, well, don't suck your schools have some sense of values that they teach. Why should we privilege those values over the religious values? Sam Alito, he says, what if, what if there's a private school that is inculcating a kind of secular, purely materialistic view of life? That's a philosophy. That's you could argue a religion, that's certainly a moral code. He goes, do you think that the main subsidy will allow parents? Of course. They can send their kids to that school. So why is it the case that a purely materialistic view of life is acceptable, but evidently a religious view of life is not? And who, who assigned the state of Maine, the right to make these kinds of judgments about the good life? To decide this is the good life that's not the good life. So what you see here and of course, Maine is trying to constantly duck out of this by saying, well, and then here's a lido. He goes, what if you have a private school that teaches critical race theory? And that's all they teach. Our parents allowed to send their kids to that school, obviously, yes, 'cause they're a private school, and they can teach pretty much whatever they want. Well, isn't critical race theory of philosophy? It embody a set of values. Doesn't it in fact a sign almost religious categories or victimization? You're the perpetrator guilt innocence, penitents or no penitents allowed? Well, if that religious doctrine can be taught in the name of critical race theory, why can't about the school teach baptist integrate baptist teachings into its educational philosophy? Now, main, of course, wants to resist this, and of course, in the article enslaved, the guy goes, quote, if this is allowed to continue, he goes, this is going to encourage states all over the country to have these private programs and they're going to be funding religious schools and quote, it will undermine the premise of public education in America. Fantastic. This is great. What's interesting is that when you listen to the left's warnings, we're so accustomed to, oh, we will undermine public education, as opposed to it will undermine public education. This is exactly what we're looking forward to public education is basically become a vehicle for the indoctrination of the left and the more we can do to undermine public education,.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It can't be safe because a federal entity says. No you can't come into the building at department of justice's so what next one looks. I think a lot of members of congress would just sort of get into a letter writing campaign. But we don't do that we show up. That's why we showed up at the doj asked her questions letters work no and when we got ignored there. That's why we showed up at the prison and we're going to continue to be active and in the face of this administration that is totally out of control and you know what would be. Helpful would be some additional support from some of our republican colleagues. Absolutely here's the question. I get from a lot of constituents. Will they get to see adam. Kissing are crying the day away. And they get to see. Liz cheney arm-in-arm with adam schiff but where are the tough republicans asking the real questions about january six so martin now fairness we have a few we we have. But it's yeah well sure were just. Yeah but yeah. I mean there are over two hundred republicans in the united states congress and you know a small handful that are actually fighting and so you know we have just said. Look if there's not going to be an intense republican effort we will build it gohmert. Gosar green bigs gates the names. You know the names you trust and we'll be out there doing it. A with or without the backing of our leadership and with or without the permission of nancy pelosi. Yeah sebastian. i've told you this. Over and over i think congress is completely broken and so we're going to redefine the way members of congress. Get things done. I think if i may as the host here i think we gotta go bigger than that. It's not just congress. It's broken it's it's not just the gop. It is politics in america. We are talking to congresswoman. Madre taylor green congressman matt gates georgia. Florida followed them. Rep matt gaetz and rep mt. Gee i'm sebastian gorka. This is america first two.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"matt gaetz" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"I this is on you. Want on one. We might have to rework that love. Because he's gonna be one onto today because we have two of the most committed robust freedom fighters who've agreed to come in studio today non other than mod retailer green and matt gaetz congressman congresswoman extraordinaire. Welcome in studio funky with you now. I know you initially extended the offer for one one. But i can't you know you don't want sonny without share. Are you gonna give out every background. We have people to name to get behind the scene. Said yes she'd come in. Would you come in. And then maybe both of you. Because you've been right. You've been doing this tour. We we've toured america. We've tried to prisons. We've tried to go in and justice and we seem to be on a tour of the united states congress in some ways because we're treating the job very differently than a lot of our colleagues southerners thursday last week. You guys tried to go into a prison and you were first time ever prevented from going. I mean usually not allowed to break out. Right right yeah. Usually people walked in prison but we were actually locked out of prison literally locked out. They locked the door okay. We're gonna talk about everything you're doing. Forty made a long list before we started first things i can. I tell you a little background story. Where if you guys to arrive and there's many reasons to like both of you We can talk about and we will through the hour but you know one of the greatest reasons we prepping doing. Pre-production eating a slice of pizza and one of my guys goes. This is gonna be a zoo in a few minutes because mt g. and gates arriving and their entourage is we don't have enough chairs and i thought entourage's that's not what i'm used to it. These guys this is in the swamp this is average politician horizon forty-eight handlers and everything and you ride both of you with one person one and then a few minutes later and not so your entourage was to people i think that hells you everything you need to know about these individuals okay. Let's start with. What i think is the most serious maybe tactical but it's the most serious issue. We have americans in prison in solitary accused of being an insurrection who are actually being charged with. What is it interrupting and official preceding and you try to see these people. Tell us what happened. When was there on thursday. You try to visit. So here's an important frame doctor who orca. Every month. In america members of congress tour detention facilities congresswoman green was just out one on the border. Democrats got to tour detention facilities during trump administration. Republicans have toured some detention facilities under the biden administration. This is not an unusual thing and so we wanted to see the conditions that the january six detainees. Were facing and really. It's an opportunity for us to see how the correction system is working more. Broadly we put a lot of money into that system through the first step back. And so this is part of congress's normal oversight phone side. We were called trespassers. Buy yes the authorities running the prison correct when we went into the lobby. We came and we instantly financial delegation congressional. Yes advanced not unannounced. Let them know we were coming. We have been sending letters asking questions for months. Now is a federal facility. Federal federal prison. Yes we got no answers so we decided we'll go ourselves. Let them know we were coming. We go into the lobby. Produced our identification. It was matt gaetz myself. Louie gohmert paul gosar producer. Identification showed them. We worked waited in the lobby and then they told us to wear masks. Of course we put on our masks and when a woman came out to speak with us she told us we were trespassing. As we're standing in the lobby that special told you from the prison that as congressional members you are trespassing on a federal facility paid for by us the taxpayer. I don't know who they think. Appropriate these funds but it gets even worse after. We were accused of traveling. Then we went outside. Oh yes yeah gore and we went outside just real quick man. We went outside to speak to the supervisor. We were told they were outside. When we went outside to the supervisor they locked the doors and would not let us back in. That's that is literally what happened at a federal prices legal tools you all supposed to have oversight as members of congress. The house has has oversight of spending. This is not just offensive to the four members of congress that went and attempted to conduct our official duties. it is offensive to the congress at large. Because what are you saying is that is that you don't have a right to see what the biden regime is up to behind closed doors. In normal circumstances. Republicans and democrats would join together to be offended by this and to take action against it. If you can't find out if you guys can't find out what's happening in a federal prison. Nobody can our concern for. I'm concerned for the entire prison population. Not just the january six detainees. I'm concerned for all of them. Because that prison is being run by people who were so defiant to members of congress. They call trespassers. And then lock us out and vote to fund their ruddy so then what isn't even more recent development. The dc department of corrections puts out a statement following our visit that in addition to lying suggests that we compromised the safety and security of the staff and of those who are at this particular facility just by showing up in seeking a tour the how is their facility so fragile that a two-hour would compromise the safety of the be shot down two on our members of congress with id's if all compromise the security of a of a prison right that members of the judiciary committee broncos are oversight committee. Louie gohmert judiciary. He's also a former judge his the next question. If you look on social media a lot of the seventy-three million who voted for donald trump have had it with the gop's and we wrote a letter to right. Okay so what happens next. Let's go back to why you went there. Why did we went bigger americans who are in solitary on trespass charge some of them grandmothers when. Blm antifa don't spend a day in prison well while canceling us online. While pursuing us in real life the biden administration also believes. They can ignore our questions so this wasn't just a suicide ponte visit right for months reasonable. Rational questions have been totally ignored. So the first thing we did was shocked the department of justice. Choose and we said. Hey look we only got five members of congress on the same shoes on the same thing to ask questions about the civil rights issues that that we were curious about they wouldn't even let congresswoman green in the lobby as there was a left wing mob assembling to threaten our ability to even make statements lately and i have to tell you sebastian as a woman and as a first time member of congress. I've never experienced that kind of treatment. I have so many death threats. It's unreal and the department of justice. Left us all out on the sidewalk. And i really was concerned for our safety as i was looking down each side each different direction of the sidewalk. Seen all of these leftists and activists coming in because we had put out a press. Release that we were going so that we could provide information to the press and share it with the american people. Well here comes all the leftists in the crazy activists that are paid and here. They're coming and they would. Not even i ask. Can we please wait in the lobby for security reasons and they would not even let us have anger. This is what i say. This is out of control. Total when a woman. I don't care whether it's a congresswoman or not..
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"Don't really like when you take a girl somewhere on a plane. You kind of just like my spiritual Twitter adviser. Really messed up my thinking on this. There's something deeper there about. I think the gate story is one that, well, yeah, it's like super funny that he's just getting exposed for the piece of shit everyone knows he is, but it's also there's two unfortunate things at play here, which is now all these people are coming out saying it was a known thing that he did all this shit and then he showed these photos at work. So now we're seeing so you got so all you guys knew he was doing this. It didn't say shit until now. Now that he's in hot water. That's a problem number one. But problem number two that his story points to is the overall thinking about people in your own life, you know? I personally, I truly don't know anyone who kind of falls into this category, but I'm sure there are a lot of people reasonable people out there who have a friend in their orbit who maybe is a guy in his 30s who is consistently bringing a new girlfriend around who is like 21. And there comes a point in time where everyone sort of starts to think it's a little weirder. It's one thing when we're all 23. It's one thing when we're all 25. Then people start getting married, getting into their 30s and Joe over here is bringing 21 year olds around still. It's like, it's just like those are the kind of guys in your orbit that some people are probably kind of realizing, okay, this might be kind of a weird. This might be a problem, or he at least is someone who probably needs to see a fucking therapist and figure out why he can't date anyone age appropriate. You know, or at least within like 5 years of his age, like there's something there, you know? So I think his I think this whole story, I hope if anything it just creates some sort of awareness in people that there are way more men out there than we think who would fuck a teenager if they can get away with it. You know? The whole if they can get away with it thing is the factor. Yeah, that's what scary too is like, what if Matt Gaetz was a little bit smarter? Yeah, what if he was even slightly what if he had even a little bit of self preservation in his brain? Like what if he didn't float through life completely consequence free and thought to himself like, oh, you know what? I probably won't get away with this if I do this as this. As I do so long, thank you so much for being here. This is awesome. Yeah, it was great talking to you. You did such a good job of breaking everything down. Thank you. I just want to know, I just wanted to know from you what? What's going to happen, so I'm sorry. You know, I really think it's good. I think it's going to get I think it's going to get worse for him for sure before it gets better. That's my prediction based on the things that I've read so far, but who knows or like I said, he'll be the next president. He could either either way. It'll be fun, either way, it's going to be fun. That's funny. All right, well, thank you so much for being on. Thank you for your time. Sorry I kept you so long. No, it's okay, I love it..
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"Politics was when he took over for an embattled Republican who had lost his see through a series of scandals, obviously northwest Florida. It is for context his district is like one of the reddest in Florida and actually one of the Redis like in the country. It is like slammed down Republican like whoever runs is gonna get it. Whoever wins a crime, but the primary is the race in that district. So he runs in 2017. Gets elected. So he's been in the U.S. House of Representatives for the last one, no, I mean a little bit longer than that. He's in his third term, I think. So he with like no real information on what he did before this. He was a lawyer. He has a JD that he got from William college of William and Mary, which is like one of the most elite private schools in the country. You'd never know it 'cause all these guys like to talk about is how like beard baseball fucking working man, blue collar, you know, no they're not. They're pretty little fucking rich boys that go to east coast schools and that's exactly what he did. So anyway, he's been in Congress for like 6, 7 years, and he made a name for himself, particularly throughout the Trump administration as being like the biggest carnival Barker in even like a monster chorus of guys who are just like debasing themselves all the time to standing up for Trump. He's the worst of them. So if you have somehow made it to this point without knowing who met gaetz's. Congratulations. I'm not being terminally online like I am. But it is important to know as a piece of context for thinking about what we're talking about what he's dealing with now because the fact that he spent the last four or 5 years being like the loudest dumbest one of all of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in Congress is now kind of like, in a way, kind of biting him in the ass, I would say. Oh yeah, and also his, he was in the state Senate, I think, and his dad, because his daddy was his dad's seat. His dad was also a Florida state representative, not in Congress, but at the Florida legislative level. Yeah, and I just think that's a pattern too. They all do the same. It's all like, you look at these guys Wikipedia and it doesn't take long to realize they just sort of, they just sort of fell ass backwards into the same thing their dad was doing. They're all like these fail sons who couldn't possibly carve their own way in life. He, another piece of information about Matt Gaetz that I find very weird and entertaining. And very typical. Like everything about this guy is typical to the point of being like an overwrought TV character. He is someone who you would come up who you would find in like a WB script for like sleazy politician. You know what I mean? Like there's nothing unique about the man. So in falling perfectly in line with the entire theme of everything about him, he got arrested for DUI in like 2010. I think it was. Oh, I didn't know this one. Yeah, he got arrested in Florida for DUI. And he did not end up actually getting charged for it. The judge just missed the dismissed the case because basically a series of technicalities from the police work that was done or whatever. Of course he declares himself he takes that information and is like, I'm innocent, see, it's like they just threw out the case because they didn't have enough information to convict you. Step one of the Republican playbook is to declare yourself innocent because we fucked up when they arrested you. Yeah. So he's how did you I before he, he's in or like, you know, he's been arrested for DUI. He's been in Congress for a while. One weird thing that he did that came up about kind of at the beginning of the pandemic was like around maybe May or June of last year was that it was revealed all of a sudden on Twitter that he has like, what he calls a son in this 19 year old Cuban guy named Nestor, so Matt Gaetz is like, he's like this loud mouth idiot politician on every Sunday show, like Fox News, blah, blah blah. All of a sudden it has a 19 year old person who is living with him in sort of a father son way, but no one can figure out the origin of how that happened. And then later on because he's one of those guys he's says something stupid and then tweets through it. Eventually you get to the origin of what the fuck he's talking about. So the story is that apparently he dated this guy's older sister years ago when the guy was like 12, when I was a 12 year old kid, and then kept raising him after they broke up. If he were a Democrat, they would have forced him out by now. Like imagine a Democrat being like, oh, I have a 19 year old that lives with me. That's my kid, but I don't have any paperwork showing how that happened. Well, Andy, didn't he help get his ex-girlfriend who's a sister? Yeah. Custody of him, because it was some weird thing where she was basically raising him more or less because their family was back home in Cuba. And then their relationship fell apart, but he continued to raise this boy, lived with him, I guess. And still does, I think. And he didn't think to mention it until like a year ago when the kid was when he's now an adult and this kid nest or had appeared in a few photos, people dug up in social media that he had appeared in some photos of Matt Gaetz, but Matt Gaetz would have referred to him as like an intern or like a helper, it was just such a bizarre, like, what? So that's not even the weirdest thing about him. It's just, that's a piece of context for like, these are the types of reasons he pops up on Twitter. Any trends in a day. Do you know why he why he said? He had a son. Do you remember what I remember? I don't remember why he brought it up. It felt like it was okay. It was during a hearing and I think a Democrat was like saying, you know, you don't know what it's like to raise a kid. Yeah. He goes, I have a son. I have a human son. The other one's like, what? No one knew he had a kid. Yeah. And so that's kind of an asshole thing to do anyways. Yeah. Because he was just revealing it to he was really good at the most ass backwards way imaginable, which again was really on brand for him. The guy is just an expert at doing things in the most ham handed, stupid ass way. Well, so the other stuff gets you did a really great job of the other stuff gets really confusing. So do you want to explain the IDs? Oh yeah, I do. Okay. Here's where all this started. This started like oh, and by the way, it's for, again, for anybody who doesn't quite know this guy is, he was probably in the top three of the loudest dumbest supporters of this whole stop the steel bullshit scam that Trump was running for. We now know, obviously, was a very naked fundraiser. That's all it was. It was a way to make more money to scam people. But he was the one who was leading the charge on trying to get Liz Cheney kicked out of Congress or, you know, removed from her seats for standing up for against Trump. He was the one who was encouraging all the stop the steal shit. He was the one interrupting congressional proceedings during the impeachment. The first impeachment trial, et cetera. So he's been at the forefront of all of this. So now what happened about a week at about like ten days ago, I guess, was the initial..
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"Sleep, and you just sit, it's nice to just sit there and have your like you gotta watch them. But then when they get older, it only takes one parent at a time. Yeah, you can kind of tag in and out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. When Suzy gets home, she had straight for the couch. And then I played Jack and then I'd be like, Jake's book to mom. And I don't know what I do. Yeah, what's through like a little older and they can and they actually enjoy engaging with you in that way. But then there's like that period where they're kind of like they're crawling, but they're not quite like, you know, they're not quite like activity age yet. Their activity is just crawling and picking up some little discussing thing off the floor. Yeah. And putting it directly on their mouth. Something you didn't know was on the floor. Like somehow there's an old nail. Yeah. And your baby managed to find it in the whole house. You got this giant retro attack. I was like, what? The fuck is that? The oldest one was deadly thing in your house. But no, but yeah, and then the other cool thing about kids is he's like, I think 17 months now. I don't know, but they're fun. We play with toys and we color and we like, it takes up the doing nothing. You're not doing anything. Your mind shuts off. And you're just like, yeah, let's color this. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that because it's great, man. It's like, it's not as hard as well, I mean, I'm sure some people have. Yeah. But Jack is yeah, over the pandemic, I was on unemployment from the state of New York because our restaurant closed there and then I moved out here. So anyway, I was able to stay on that the whole year. I hope that IRS isn't listening. And I have two listeners, Cerner and IRS. Oh, I'm screwed. And so but as a cash job, I was nannying. So for me. For like a good little chunk of the pandemic. So I was with a four year old. Yeah, four is hard because they're like, you need to have the whole you have to continuously be doing stuff and we couldn't leave the house really because this is in the pandemic. Oh my God, yeah. It was a lot, but I found myself really liking whenever she wanted to do craft projects. That was fun. Because I could just draw a picture that she could color and we got a lot of mileage out of making construction paper chains. We made dozens of them. That's awesome. Just cut in the strips of paper and gluing them together. And write that out as long as I could. If she was into it, I was like, well, let's just keep making it. And have like a 40 yard chain because she just was interested in it and then she would get bored and we'd move on to something else, but yeah, that's tough. And then she also has a little she had a baby sister. So I was like watching the baby who was getting into the crawling. Oh my God. Eating things phase at the same time. I don't know how people do it. I think about it. I think about day care all the time. How do they do it all day? It's smart. It was fun. I had a fun time doing it because the kid was awesome, but she legitimately was like the funniest person I ever met in my life. But it was hard because the baby was so rad too, but she really like, once she started, I was there for like the singularity moment from when she went from she would just stay wherever you plopped her down to like overnight, she learned how to crawl. And she would make a beeline for the potted plants in the house. Fist in and grab as much dirt as she could before I'd rush over there and grab her and try to put it in her mouth. So that was like my sport every day was like, don't let the baby eat dirt. That's your job. Yeah. You were outnumbered though. That's what I'm saying. It was so defense all day. But yeah, I mean, when you got two versus you. It's brutal stuff. I don't know how people have three. I don't have couples have three kids. You're on the defensive all the time. Yeah, I mean, a lot of our friends are on their second kid or whatever and it's like, when you get two of them, it's a big jump in. To talk about now you can't clock in and out anymore or tag each other in town, really. All right, I'll take the little one you take the big one. Good luck. Great bunker. You at midnight, yeah. Yeah. We'll see you when we both plop into bed defeated on the verge of tears. Okay, this is a great we're going to get to the topic here. We're talking about Matt Gaetz tonight. I got one more question and this one is going to lead into it. Okay. Thank you, random question generator dot com for your patronage. What behaviors make you think a person is creepy? Oh, that's a good one. I think that and I've tweeted about this recently and it got a lot of traction and a lot of weirdos talking about it. But I think particularly when men, men like our age, you know, 30 plus are really well versed in what the age of consent is in every state. I'm like, dude, you couldn't be waving a bigger, brighter red flag. Why do you know what the age of consent is in a state you don't live in? Why would you even know, why would you even care what it is in your own state, bro, you're in your 30s? I think that's going to be a shit. That is creepy. And what's terrible about this is? You're kind of like my Twitter spiritual animal. Oh, wow. Thank you. Like your guide? Yeah. And specifically I look up stuff when stuff happens, I'm like, I gotta see what serious and I gotta know. And you're always right and I know student make me sound old or whatever or stupid, but Susie left, so she's not she came back. But you always have the sickest burns on people. I can't emphasize enough that it's because I'm not doing anything right now. It's time to sit around and get pissed off. But what sucks about that is I was trying to figure out what human trafficking meant for for Matt. So I looked up and I was like, I had looked up the age of consent thing. Yeah. So now I'm a guy who knows the age of yeah, but you know, for research purposes, you don't know it because you're talking to a girl on the Internet and you're like trying to memorize it. Yeah. You're not gonna have like a map in your room. With a little number on each state..
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"Welcome to a very special story of, I'm here with Sarah York. I'm so excited to talk to you, Sarah. I'm excited to be here. This is great. You were one of the first podcasts. I don't know if I met you first, or I listened to your podcast first. But I don't know. I don't remember which one would have come first. I would have been a while ago. I listened to diking out first. Yeah. And I didn't know there is podcasts or just like, I thought it was like comedy podcasts and current events, podcasts or whatever. I didn't know there was a whole genre where you talk about stuff and it's hilarious. Oh yeah. Listen to your podcast. I appreciate that. We did talk about a lot of stuff and it was hilarious. Did you ever listen to what I did before that called how to adult? Yeah, that's the one. I found that later. I found that after I oh, that's a deep cloud. That's some old shit there. It was after you left diking out, then I went to adulting until that one. But then I met at a wedding at Jackie's wedding too. Oh man, I had a few drinks at that wedding. That was a lot of fun. Oh, well, I just remember you were on all night. And I can't remember you were so on that I downloaded your podcast or if I had listened to your podcast and was like following you around, but I'm sure I badgered you into downloading it on your phone at some point. It's an aggressive sales tactic. Well, did you guys ever have sponsors and stuff? Not at the time. No, I don't know if they do now, but at the time we didn't, it was just like all self produced. That's awesome. Not awesome that you didn't have. That's all right. 'cause you guys stuck to a schedule, you had how many episodes did you have? I did a 107, I think. And then I did like probably about the same amount with how to adult. So I've got about 200 ish hours episodes really. I mean, each of them they could be like two hours long. So probably like 400 hours of podcasting under my belt. Do you ever go back and listen to them? Sometimes I'll think about them and I'll try to go back to a specific moment if I really am feeling nostalgic, but for the most part, I have such a whenever I stop recording something I always instantly forget everything. So we're just kind of how I live my life. If something just tumbles out of my mouth, I'm just like, well, it's already happened. You know, I just, if I forget about it, surely everyone else did. Just like constantly Dory from finding the quote. That's awesome. Well, because I was listening to the last episode of adults adulting. And it was hard because it was stressful to listen to because it was after the election. Oh, God. Like, Sarah, you guys were talking about Sarah, Huckabee, Sanders. Yeah. But you didn't know who she was. It was so funny because I know that would be a real time capsule because what a stressful time for everyone and then going back to the initial moments when Trump got elected. And that first sort of ensemble cast of pieces of shit in the administration, you know, season one, episode one. Trump was like, this Motley crew of just people that are absolutely either washed out of politics or like Sarah Huckabee Sanders are entering another realm of it, unfortunately, she's probably going to be the next governor of what is it Arkansas or Mississippi, whatever state she's running in. Yeah. Analogy. That's a great announcement because Suzy watched the guy was back on SVU or something, some guy who left? Yeah. It was a crossover event. And so she started watching it from season one and she was like, oh my God, I forgot her. I forgot him. Yeah. And it's like, that's what listening back on that stuff was like. Oh yeah. You guys were talking about scaramucci in one of them. He was only there for like a few weeks. A guest spot on the administration, you know? Yeah, you were on fire that episode. And it's all still good. It's a man. I'm sure. Well, now that we're out of that time in history, it would be a lot more fun to go back and listen to. But in 2018, it wasn't fun to listen to like stuff from right after the election because it was just like so glee because you're like, when are we ever gonna get the fuck out of this? And we did, but you know, obviously some of the remnants are still around. Hence our topic today. But yeah, oh yeah, so our top three. Thank you for joining us. Talk to me as Matt Gaetz. Just in general, Matt Gaetz, but I know too much about Matt Gaetz. I've been following this story like the moon landing. I've been like, when he was on Tucker Carlson, I was like, Jack get in here, you're gonna remember this. You made him watch it. He's like, this show is so boring. There's no cartoons. I was like, well, Tucker Carlson does kind of like a Muppet and he does, yeah. He's got like a little bow tie on. He dresses like a wealthy toddler. He sucks. He could be like, he'll be like a little spin off topic someday. Oh man, okay. Before we get to the topic though, I gotta ask you, I wanna thank my sponsor random question generator dot com. Are you having anxiety? Meeting people after the pandemic? Yeah, I mean, I haven't really the closest I've come to meeting people would be starting a new job in the restaurant business out here. So I have coworkers now, but we're also in a setting where we are all everybody's wearing a mask. The whole time. I don't know what any of my coworkers look like from like the bridge of their nose down. Yeah. And we were face shields. The entire time, so but I have yet to go out to like a restaurant or just like as a customer and I have yet to go to a social function, I have my first shot from the vaccine, but I don't get my second one for another couple of weeks and then but then you're supposed to wait like a three weeks after that. Yeah. So I'm like, I don't know what to do because I before all of this. I love going places and seeing people and stuff and now I'm already swirling around with excuses of why not why I can't go to something, you know? Yeah, that's true. I'm nervous about it. You got to get back in shape kind of, you know, like I've been peloton behind me? Hey, we have one reason I got that. What do you think about it? I actually I'll be honest, I really like it. I like it because I hate actually going to a gym. It took me until my mid 30s to come to terms with myself. You're not going to go to the gym. You're not going to use the memberships. I've looked fucking money on these things over the course of my life. And I hardly ever use them. I can do it in 20 minutes and it's over and I don't think about it anymore the rest of the day. So so far, I'm into it. We've had about a month. I like it. I wish we had gotten it earlier in the pandemic because going back to my previous point about how much I was drinking over the pandemic, I put on like, I put on like a cute 20 pounds, you know? So distributed, but it's there. It's definitely there..