Congress agrees on $900 billion coronavirus relief package; Florida GOP Rep. Michael Waltz says the win is 'way too late' on 'Fox & Friends.'
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PETE. We begin this Monday
morning with a Fox news alert
its a deal, a recall expected
today on nine hundred dollars billion relief
package.
Ing
Emily includes six hundred dollars. Stimulus
checks and supplemental jobless
benefit
also extends the paycheck
protection program, as well as
housing assistance.
Brian wait until the last
minute.
Both parties are blaming each
other for the delay.
There is no reason why this
urgent package could not have
been signed into law. Multiple
months ago,
the democratic side decided that
presidential politickings were
more important than getting
urgent and controversial relief.
This bill is certainly not
everything we wanted.
Our republican friends stood in
the way of so much
Brian. There you go.
The president is expected to
quickly sign it into the law.
The president guys is really
response sick for the direct
checks to Americans.
He said: listen. You have got to
get these people right. Money rig
away,
lets wring in by the way hi
Emily
Emily good Morning, its an
honor always to be in for
Ainsley
PETE. Good morning, Emily
Brian, I said it first PETE
let the record show
lets bring in Colonel Michael
Waltz Member of the House Armed
Services Committee,
congressman who gets credit
who gets blamed.
You know this has just been
swamp: politics, d, DOT, c politics at
its worst.
You know speaker, Pelosi and
Schumer are right to some
degree.
We have rejected a lot of what
they wanted in their
multitrillion dollars will
Heros act. They passed back in
June that was full of the
progressive wish lists
everything from undocumentedding
aliens to this whole progressive
piece on corporate boards.
How we vote
all kinds of things they tried
to throw in there,
but meanwhile Brian, as you I
and I have talked about, there
was one hundred and thirty eight dollars billion
left over and unspent from the
paycheck protection program.
We tried nineteen times to say fine.
We can argue about all of those
other things, but please let
businesses have access to these
moneys
and Pelosi refused, because she
took you know her way or the
highway or or nothing approach.
Now we have gone over three trillion
down to two.
Now, down to nine hundred billion,
it looks like were going to get
an agreement on.
We have an agreement on
and heres what I want people to
understand. Five hundred billion of that
nine is left over moneys. We were
able to re purpose,
so you know there is some
fiscal responsibility in this
package,
but- and it is now targeted on
programs that are going to help
people get through this
pandemic,
and I will think at the end of
the day, this is a win for
people who have been suffering,
but it is way way way too
late.
Pete colonel, it is amazing,
almost feels like we are right
back where we started on a lot
of these items.
You mentioned the speaker,
though
Nancy Pelosi Heres a couple of
clips
one from yesterday and another
from early December of her take
on this covid 19 relief bill.
Listen
so long because we could not
get our republican colleagues to
crush the virus.
Why would they not want to
invest in the science that has
told us so importantly, that it
required testing tracing
treatment? Separation,
sanitation,
Joe Biden, committed to ending
and crushing the virus.
What was then before was not
more of this.
This is this, has simplicity
its what we have had in our
bills,
its for a shorter period of
time
but thats. Okay. Now because we
have a new president,
PETE, so much serious talk and
so many words, but ultimately she
revealed right there at the end,
the motivation behind delaying
all of this
yeah, the bottom line is she
did not want to give President
Trump a win,
and meanwhile the american
people were losing.
You know you are right.
We did reject some things.
Main thing we rejected was a
bailout to a lot of the blue
states who have mismanaged their
funds, and I cant responsibly
vote for floridas taxpayers in
a state that is managing it
budget to bail out New York and
bail out California and a lot of
other northeastern states.
So we did reject that.
But meanwhile we were asking
her to at least let businesses
have another bite at the apple
at moneys that were already
appropriated. It
just fires me up every time I
get a phone call from one of our
businesses that are going out
forever and she wanted to play
politics until she could see if
she had a new president
again politics at it. Worst
people have really been hurt.
Emily congressman switching
topics. Here we want to get your
thoughts on the incoming White
House Press secretary, who is
talking this weekend on Fox
NEWS Sunday about the Hunter
Biden. Probes,
take a listen.
He has been elm emphatic that
that person will oversee an
independent department.
He is looking for somebody at
the highest level of integrity
that person whomever it is
will be overseeing whatever
investigations are happening at
the Department of Justice,
Hinghewill not be discussing an
investigation with his son with
any attorney general candidates.
He will not be discussing with
anyone. He is considering for the
role and will not be discussing
it with a future attorney
general
Emily. Can Americans count on
the neutrality that the speaker
is discussing there.
This is a classic trust. Us
you know in the situation
involving billions of foreign
money, our greatest adversary, we
have ever faced China that
clearly has a massive influence
operation underway throughout
our politics. Trust us
dont worry about it.
They are clearly relying on
their friends in the liberal
media to continue to not cover
it and brush it under the rug.
If there is anything that I have
ever seen, that qualifies for an
independent investigator, an
independent prosecutor, its
this
that clearly affects the son of
someone who is on the verge of
possibly becoming president and
possibly that individual
himself, Joe Biden and the rest
of his family, but yet no
problem,
nothing to see here.
We will take care of it.
Dont worry about it.
I dont think so.
We need- and I hope the President
moves forward with a special
prosecutor to see this through,
keep in mind that U Dot S attorney
that is overseeing this
investigation can also be
replaced by a Biden
administration.
So we need someone independent.
It fits every definition in the
book
Ing
Brian, maybe Joe Biden, wont
bring it up with a attorney
general candidate, but RON
Kayleigh Mcenany was
lets talk a Propublica story to
define something in detail that
we already knew.
China lied about the virus.
We still dont know how it
started.
We still dont know what the
strain looks like where it
emanated.
We still dont know why the
w dot ho wasnt, clone and didnt
come clean on it and why they
sold out to China.
We thoroughly understand that
they lied to Us
Cnn discovered that two weeks
ago,
and now we have details
Heres a quote:
China curbs on information about
the outbreak started in early
January
early January
thats, before the novel
coronavirus had even been
identified definitively.
The documents show this.
When infections started
spreading rapidly a few weeks
later, the authorities clamped
down on anything that cast
Chinas response in too negative
of a light.
Think about how the CDC had the
wrong test.
Think about how we were told the
wrong information,
the things that we could have
done to prepare us for the
poisoning of the world thanks
to China.
If this does not warrant a
fiscal retribution, I dontt KN
what does
well yeah.
I couldnt agree with you more
Brian
and look remember. They kicked
out our journalists.
They have arrested their
journalists,
they have disappeared.
We still dont know where they
are,
in addition to their doctors, who
were trying to inform the world
and then immediately, you know,
influence its friends within the
w dot HO whose job was to make
sure that the world is prepared.
Meanwhile, they are overseeing
this army of bots and online
cyber warriors that are
spreading misinformation, all
over of the global internet
and one of the biggest pieces.
One of the key parts of their
campaign is making sure it was
not called the China virus or
the Wuhan virus
that we all kind of fell in to
this bland Covid 19, which we
have
so they have been successful in
that right.
Those of you was that were
trying to remind the world and
remind Americans who started
this and where this came from
were pillaried in the press. Why?
Because they wanted to make sure
that the focus stayed on
President Trump in a campaign
year. All of this coming out
after an election shouldnt be
surprised whether its it New
York Times, CNN or others.
China will pay.
We had a task force in the house
that was supposed to be
Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker Pelosi pulled her
Democrats at the last minute
from participating looking
across the board from the
economy to the healthcare to the
military, because she said it
distracted from the president
trying to divert attention to
China.
The Democrats have a real
problem with China and its all
getting wrapped into this
PETE colonel. You are so right.
We have a massive China problem,
yet the examples, especially on
the democrat side of the aisle
dont, give any inspire any
confidence for anybody.
So you have got the potential
presidents, son, embroiled with
the communist chinese office
mates with an energy company
over there,
take Nancy Pelosis husband who
does business in China,
take Dianne Feinstein
all of these establishment elite
members of the Democrat Party
have personal fiscal
connections to cheap goods and
business in China.
What expectation can regular
folks, workers in America have
that Washington will actually
step up and confront the
communist Chinese in a way
thats beneficial to us in a
way thats meaningful?
That is not a smoke screen.
Well, its just one more
reason: we cant lose the Senate,
and the Republican Party
certainly has had a wake up.
Call
II have talked to a number of
Democrats who understand. Whats
going on
democratic leadership has not,
and some of these politicians
that they are spotting and
assessing early in their career.
You know they are not trying to
put you know on the shoe Shine
committee.
They are putting them on armed
services,
they are putting them on the
intelligence committee
and others that they are
influencing
look at the end of the day
we, the Chinese Communist
Party, is in a cold war with the
United States.
We need a wake up call across
the country
and it need to be coming from
their elected leaders,
and I really fear its not just
those leaders that you pointed
out. Bidens son look at some
of his picks and some of these
nominees for cabinet positions
and, though all have bought into
this notion that the rise of
China is a peaceful thing.
No problem,
no big deal
nothing to see here
and thats exactly what
President XI wants us to believe
until its too late
Emily. We are just two years
into this Dojs China
Initiative, Congressman in
which there were countless
prosecutions and convictions of
chinese operatives, espionage and
sabotage here.
So my question is: do the
american people can they expect
that this will be extinguished,
that under the incoming
administration? All of our formal
counter terg efforts will be
wind away?
Yeah well, im, certainly
going to do everything in my
power to not let that happen
remember. We have had the head
of Harvard arrested
professors at Emory University
at Texas, Aampm,
the Moffit Cancer Research
center. In Florida,
the Department of Justice has
said they have dozens and dozens
of individuals under
investigation that have taken
money from the Department of
Defense, taken taxpayer, grant
funded research from health and
Human services NIH, and then
they are shipping it wholesale
over to Beijing
and what Beijing calls that is
their civil mill program, where
they take these civilian
technologies, materials,
robotics jet engines and flip
it right over to their military
guess. What
now they are rolling out the
most advanced stealth fighters,
rockets missiles and others that
look exactly like ours?
I have very little confidence
that a potential Biden
administration sees this for
what it is and is going to
aggressively go after it like
the Trump Administration has and
like the president, has
whether its closing down
consulates that are serving as
spy centers like he did in
Houston,
putting people under
investigation
the four hundred thousand chinese students
that are here siphoning out
vacuuming up technology.
This is across the board
Brian Right,
its from Wall Street to NBA
to Disney.
You know. Reportedly, the head of
Disney is under consideration to
go to Beijing as the ambassador.
We have really have to
understand the depth and breadth
of this,
and I dont think the Democrats
are calling it out for what it
is.
They are not even close
Brian. They want Wall Street
executives to help them out with
the will trump administration
they changed. Hollywood
apple never has a critical criti
to write in news service about
them.
Taken our fighter. Jess
only thing you can see is the
decal
can see is see. The it will glue
marks
probe, looks like ours
are, are push in the Biden
administration to use
cooperation as we try to get to
Mars.
He yeah lets work with China.
Why make them hack when we can
just share and bring them over
to the office? Space
lets go make some keys.
China has had more launches
than the rest of the world,
including the United States,
Brian Unbelievable,
combined into space
thats. Why we need a space force
to defend our assets up there.
Im not confident a Biden
administration will continue to
support that either
Brian. Can I real quick on
Florida?
You are in Florida and been in
d, dot C and New York.
The difference is floridas
governor and their leadership is
saying. We know the dangers
live with it. The best you can
let the free market decide if
your restaurant is going to be
full and your beaches are going
to be owmg
as opposed to New York. You are
out of business.
Ive got your back, but I will
destroy you along the way.
How do you handle the criticism?
Thats constantly constant const
coming floridas direction.
The results speak for
themselves.
Our schools have been open since
back in August,
thanks to the leadership of
Governor Desantis.
What he did was. He took a
fundamentally different
approach.
He said families you make the
decision.
Youve got an inschool option.
You have a hybrid option.
If have you someone thats
vulnerable back at home, a grand
parent? What have you,
then? You can have the virtual.
He made families the decision
maker for their lives,
not government,
not Washington, D, DOT, c or a state
capital like Cuomo is doing
thats. The fundamental
difference.
Business owners dont want to
get people sick.
They dont want to. You know,
have to go out of business. If
that happens,
so they are going to take
appropriate measures.
We are taking an approach where
we trust individual citizens
with their liberties with their
health to make the right
decisions.
Do you know what in the
statistics are showing? We are
relatively flat despite being
open when it comes to hospitals
and comes to unfortunate deaths,
not case numbers that the
mainstream media likes to focus
on
so thats, just a very different
approach, looking at individual
liberty versus government
mandate and government shutdown,
and it comparatively as we all
fight through this, its
working
PETE, its called common sense,
and you have got a lot of it
congressman and concerning
Michael Waltz thanks so much for
being with us at the top of the
hour.
We appreciate it
im pushing for Fox amp
friends. Florida
come on down
PETE, I many a too
Brian. I know,
wife have a bureau when you can.
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