Congressman Gaetz Takes on The View

[Applause] one of the guys in the White House and one of the White House's strongest and most vocal supporters since day one please welcome the man who has obviously never watched the view I do watch you guys make news everywhere we are on a big political show I was just wondering if you were wearing black as a consequence of like the death of the political left and the debate last night was to observe you know don't count the dead yet the bodies let's give it a little time before we can Joe Biden at least I mean I was hoping maybe Whoopi's Bell could wake up the Biden campaign if you hit it I thought he was actually he didn't do any harm to himself last what states he gonna win I mean this is a man the premise of the Biden campaign is that he's electable and he can't seem to win elections so now you have socialist Bernie Sanders against billionaire Michael Bloomberg yeah well the Republicans love a billionaire they love money so what are you talking about well Michael Bloomberg used to be a Republican the Democratic Party is likely not going to nominate a Democrat they're either gonna nominate a socialist or someone who some time ago was a revolt about none of them any of them are gonna beat the president I think we have a raging economy right now the American family seeing revenue pour in is the consequence of higher wages mostly speech more more business investment capital coming from overseas into our nation I'll trip was the Democrat first he was he was we've all sort of been politically square-dancing for a while and I think that we're in a time of real political realignment so let's talk about your boss for a second cuz yes - well I don't my boss for the people of Northwest Florida okay so yesterday truck they don't dismiss them it's the highest concentration of active duty military in the country and I know Megan's dad served there so don't you can yesterday Trump announced he's appointing another loyalist of his Rick Grinnell as his acting director of national child intelligence but Grinnell as you know has absolutely no intelligence experience and he's overseeing all 17 of our Intel agencies he stands between us and the next ice attack and yeah I don't know that it's a smart idea to put somebody who's inexperienced like that but it was also a yes man in that position he said he's gonna have to tell Trump things that he's not gonna want to hear you know how he doesn't like that trunk doesn't like that well actually if you look at the team he's assembled with people like John Bolton the president regularly surrounds himself with people who disagree with him I think some of the most spirited discussions I've had have been with Lindsey Graham Rand Paul myself and the president discussing foreign policy but on Rick Grinnell fifty years ago a gay man or a woman would not be able to serve in our intelligence community there were teams of people to find out more gay waitis and they would we'll just we'll get into Grinnell's qualifications but just for a moment I would like to take a second to reflect on the fact that it is a good thing in this country that we do not ban gay people from being able to patriotically serve in the intelligence isn't transgendered people well we shouldn't be banning anybody based on who they are so on Rick's qualifications eight years at the UN two years in Germany now he advised the Security Council and Berlin where he was active is one of the hot beds of intelligence activity nothing happens there without the chief of station most of the Ambassador working together so Rick Rennell is very qualified German aid by the way I was reading about him they think he's very thin-skinned but that's another story well I mean this is the view aren't we all I have another question for you no I actually you know what and I'm with you yeah it is just I think we agree on this the pardon power now the president has been on a part in spree and many think he's about to part in Roger stone his longtime friend and one-time campaign adviser who's being sentenced I think any minute now they're in a break for crimes of obstructing justice witness tampering lying to Congress do you think Trump should pardon Roger stone I do and I think that it requires a review of the pardon power come on Munson pardon 16 people who are a member of a Puerto Rican terrorist organization that planned murders what we do when we designed our Constitution there were vestiges of the British monarchy that Americans still had some reverence for and one was the notion that the executive that the sovereign could extend unlimited can we agree that perhaps that pardon power needs to be reviewed and curbed so a great question in Federalist 74 Alexander Hamilton writes that the reason we have the pardon power is to serve as a check on a criminal justice system which if allowed to run wild could create a great sense of Sanguinetti in our country and so I think that if you look at the original intent of the pardon power it can not be limited and again 26 people Obama pardoned over 1700 Bill Clinton pardons to 159 did you have the answer to the question is what I would I would agree that Roger stone should be pardoned okay for no other reason though there's been a double standard in the country where people like Peter struck Lisa Paige just ask you how about Rob Blagojevich who fleeced by the Children's Hospital was that a good part I'll be honest with you I don't know very much about the governor of Illinois I know Roger I don't know blogged oh and I'll leave that to others congressman I understand that Republicans coming on the view this is a great culture war place to come and like show the leftist what's going on I get it my husband works in conservative media I'm a hardcore conservative the thing I don't understand because I'm not a Trumper I think that everyone knows that very clear policy wise he's been great on many things the many things that are very important to me life military the economy but his character issues are still what holds me and so many especially I think conservative women back from going full-throttle with him and I think you're gonna have a problem specifically with college educated women coming in to the next election cycle what would you say to women like me who still hold back on the grab them in the blank attacking war heroes attacking the gold star families things like that cheating on his wife hold on Sarge cheating on your wife is the qualification to be president then y'all probably should have a pitch impeach Bill Clinton about that well and not with all of you waving any pom-poms to Meghan's but I want to directly answer Megan's mother please Oh Donald Trump has a unique ability to get people who don't necessarily agree with them to vote for him and so I think for women we're gonna have to make the argument particularly that 72% of the new jobs created in this economy have been filled by women that a lot of women are concerned about the revenue and their family and whether it's going to support careers and opportunity for themselves they're their partners their children and with 7 million new jobs for being creative people coming off of welfare America is in a sense of great renewable renewal we've got a comeback president running against the throwback left and the Venezuela wing of the Democratic Party Sanders oh come on the Venezuelan to Bernie Sanders he praises Venezuela he praises I don't want that for our great we want to thank that good luck that's gates

Congressman Gaetz joins the View on ABC to discuss President Trump's reelection and the grim future of the Democratic Party.