Matt Gaetz
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Citizen Free Press is one of my daily check-ins for the news as well.
And also, more and more since I've left government life, seeing how the movement of money impacts policy decisions, I was so into what was on the next committee agenda, what the next witness would be in the chair.
And oftentimes, it's the way money moves in global marketplaces influencing events.
And I also think this is informative on our discussion on the Middle East, because for most of your and my life, the principal capital markets that mattered in the world were New York and London.
And I think a lot of people were really comfortable with that.
And then as capital has really flown out of these Gulf monarchies, out of the Middle East, you're seeing places like Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscatoman, Riyadh emerge as these very significant capital marketplaces.
And I think Netanyahu is trying to wash that region in blood and chaos and war migrants so that there is a return to New York and London being the principal capital market.
Yeah.
And that change is frightening to people who are losing power.
I get it.
And I think a lot of those people are the constituency that Netanyahu is serving as he is trying to advance an agenda that will create more war and create more violence.
And nobody's going to want to...
do business deals in Doha or Abu Dhabi or Dubai if there are 30 million Iranians that are on the move because they're war migrants.
Yeah, I was able to force a vote on it under our rules.
Yeah.
I mean, it lost by a margin of two to one.
I didn't even have a majority.
At least.
No, this was – I got news that the Department of Justice – Oh, sorry.
It was DOJ.