news. but, in the course of obtaining the letter, he found that it had been prepared, among other things, with the help of staff from hakeem jeffries and jerrold nadler. it sounds like the leadership might have been involved in preparing this letter not just the delegate from virgin islands. brian: what you and shellenberger and bari weiss did reporting you could do. regardless of what comes out. instead of them going after you and saying matt, what did you find and why did you conclude it? they came after you and basically said you are a so-called journalist and attacked your credibility, which is beyond reproach if you look at your background. but you re not done there. while you are testifying, somewhere in between, the irs comes knocking at your door. they have a problem with two of your returns. coincidence? yeah. you know at first i was being naive. i thought well, that has to be a
substack wriforts or they throttle down links to those writers and since i m one of them, you know, i had an objection to that. and elon musk and had an argument over that. that s unfortunate. it sounds like the twitter files may or may not keep continuing. i hope he finds another reporter to keep doing the work because it was really important. brian: matt, final thought, can you wrap your head around what has happened to your life the last three months from this incredible reporting to this huge to all the pressure now on you personally, how far have you responded? how are you dealing with it? i m dealing with it fine. i mean, i think this is part of the responsibility of being a reporter is that you have to deal with whatever comes. and you can t show any fear or hesitation when people threaten you or try to dissuade you from doing this kind of work, which is why i feel like i have to continue. but, you know, as a parting thought, i know this is a cliche, but can you imagine if
very bad things happen to them. the fentanyl coming across is killing americans every single day. brian: i don t know if you saw the story in the new york times. it looks like the biden administration has opened up another back door to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants expand the very controversial parole program for haitians, venezuelans, nicaraguans, and other people from nations supposedly in distress, although and cubans, although they have had the same government for a while. i think all they are doing, brian, is trying to find ways to more rapidly process people across the border. to try to take the awkward camera shots away so the public doesn t see what they are actually doing. they are flooding our borders. we are probably 6 million that have come here illegally since the biden administration started. take that number closer to 10 million people by the time this administration has finished its term. steve: senator, we know you have a biz were week ahead. thank yo
coincidence because an irs agent actually came to my door while i was testifying in washington. and i thought there was no way that could be connected and then when they actually told me it was about. one of the problems was so ridiculous that it defied belief, really. they said that my 2018 return electronic return had been rejected. i think i would have heard about that in the intervening years if that was actually the case. but i hadn t. so that was one thing that happened. the irs came and after consulting with some people, i informed the committee and yeah, we still don t know why exactly they came. brian: what is your thoughts? and now i understand between substack and twitter a little bit of a fallout between you and elon musk. can you explain that? yeah. there s a dispute between substack and twitter, substack is creating a social media platform, substack notes that i think twitter feels is a threat to their business model. so they blocked links to
since because we don t want it here. this is rural america. we are farms. all of our land over here is agricultural or residential. and they are trying to rezone our beautiful farmland into industrial land and they are doing it at record pace. and nobody stopped. they like i said, our township officials, one of them admitted to taking money from goshen. so i mean, and then they continue to let them vote on the board. we re just finding so many nontruths. it s horrible. we re fighting back. brian: hahave you been able o get a lobbyist to get this bigger than grassroots to stop it before it s too late? i think the governor is pushing this really really hard. we have reached out to her repeatedly. she will not respond to us. but, like at our rally, we had john local alan march here. senator llana tice here.