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Matt Gaetz: “The U.S. state Department has a long history of trying to…”

Featuring: Matt Gaetz, Republican | Former U.S. House, Florida's 1st District

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This guy's standing up at some event with a bunch of lunatics saying, the U.S. censoring Americans. And I'm work for the U.S. government. How about you get fired today? Yeah, I think he was pointing globally. And The U.S. state Department has a long history of trying to control what people see and hear and how they react to that. We need to change the text in Indonesia. Should we really be changing other people's textbooks? Whatever. Oh, no, I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that we should not be funding the textbook. (22:42–23:00)

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