Matt Gaetz

And said, you know, you do us a favor, we do you a favor, but the favor we want from you is actually to go against our country, our presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

And that is treasonous.

That is straight treason to ask another country to attack your country.

And I think that occurred.

And I think that if we knew who had authorized that, we would have a person to be at the center of this Puerto Rico conspiracy.

Huge intel presence in Italy as well.

Exactly.

It's one of the biggest CIA.

Mm-hmm.

And I am concerned that that doesn't just happen abroad, that that happens even within the eight square miles of Washington, D.C.

There's always intrigue.

But I think that a lot of the decisions that get made in Washington are detached from the elected leaders.

And there probably should be more intrigue, actually.

Our lawmakers should be more curious and inquisitive and skeptical.

Well, look, take these bills that get written, right?

Do you think that anyone who voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was trying to outlaw hemp?

It just was stuck in the bill, and then they voted for it.

And however you feel about hemp, I think it's kind of crazy that—

an issue wouldn't even get its own dignity.

Like the lashing together of disparate issues for just an up or down vote that kind of becomes a shirts and skins exercise is a way to detach from the realities of the decision making.