WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.720 Why do you think that you're seeing these Republican senators speak out now? Does that stand out to you? Yeah, well, first of all, I was out in 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:18.680 front on this. I said that every ICE agent should have a body camera, and I told that to Kristi Noem in a hearing. I also said they should have judicial 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:25.440 warrants to go into private homes. And these are two things that are still lacking in a lot of cases. They're 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:31.560 trying to do administrative warrants. And obviously, those guys are right. You need to cooperate with law enforcement. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:37.800 But the bigger story here or question here, which is the one you just asked, is why are Republicans putting 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:46.040 daylight between themselves and the president on this issue? Look, if you if you go to any conservative, and you say, 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:53.320 "Rate Donald Trump on his performance." They're going to I would give him an F on the economy. I'd give him, uh, 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:59.560 you know, an F on no new wars. But generally, Republicans say, "Well, we'll give him a B or at least a B minus on 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:06.880 immigration and border security." But here you have Republicans putting daylight between themselves and the president on the issue where he hasn't 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:12.560 lost his base yet. Even though the tactics here, in some cases, are not 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:17.920 appropriate from the ICE agents. Why do you think that is? Why do you think they're they're putting that 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:23.280 daylight between them? Yeah. Because they they have to find some way to get away from this 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:30.840 president. He's not out there campaigning for them. They don't want him in their districts. They've got to 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:36.160 put space between them and him. Um, and this is the price they're paying. Look, I was the Republican who was speaking 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:44.240 out for so long, and they were all whatever Trump wants, they were all for it in their primaries. And now it's they're about to take a shellacking here 00:01:42.360 --> 00:01:50.960 in the general election. So, they're running from him on on this and other issues like the war. 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:57.720 I mean, yeah, you are someone who knows what it's like to incur the president's wrath when you break with him. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:04.040 Um, the Republicans who are distancing themselves not just on ICE, but on the war when it comes to cost of diesel, on 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:11.800 tariffs. We've seen a lot more of that lately than we've ever seen. What do you think the president's response to that is going to be? Do you think he'll understand tough elections 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:18.760 are coming up or what do you say? No. If you look at his social 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:26.040 media accounts just in the last few hours, he's unrepentant. He's in denial. Somebody in the White House needs to get 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:32.720 through to him. I think his comeuppance will happen on election day and the day after I think there's going 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:40.000 to be a reckoning and and what we need to see is what he does after the day after this election. Does 00:02:36.920 --> 00:02:46.959 he send a message like George Bush did firing his Secretary of Defense the day after the 2006 midterms where 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:53.560 Republicans took a shellacking? We'll see if he does something like that and other measures to show that he got the 00:02:51.160 --> 00:03:00.080 message. You know, the president literally rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping during 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:06.519 the state visit. He's, you know, been talking about how strong and fit he looks amid concerns about his health. 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:13.040 What do you make of the president's warm welcome for Xi Jinping and the way that it has been compared with the ad that 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:20.000 the White House is putting out now of the president saying, you know, America will never be a communist country. Do 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:26.239 you think those messages jive with one another? I think it's a mixed message. Look, 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:35.320 he'll invite a communist to the White House, but I can't even go there for the Christmas party. You know, his retribution tour among on 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:43.560 Republicans, I think stands in stark contrast to the way he's treating, you know, the communist leader of China and 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:51.519 also the mayor of New York. But, you know, that's just who he is. He's he's not an ideologue. He doesn't have a 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:56.440 true north or or a honestly any kind of beliefs. He's just kind of going with 00:03:53.360 --> 00:04:01.560 the flow here. And um you know, China what's interesting about China, they're buying gold, they're not buying our 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:07.760 Treasury notes. Now, I wonder if he had a conversation about that because he's always after the Fed and the Treasury to 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:14.680 try to get interest rates down. But the reason interest rates are going up, at least the price we pay to borrow money 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:20.720 is because foreign countries like China are saying we don't want any more of your debt. Yeah. And I sorry to say I don't think 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:28.480 you're going to be getting invited to the White House Christmas party anytime soon, Congressman. Um but you know, in terms of what you're doing in your last 00:04:26.919 --> 00:04:35.160 several weeks and months on Capitol Hill, um obviously you led the charge on Jeffrey Epstein when it came to the 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:40.880 discharge petition that initially was put out there and that you know, seemed like a long shot, but 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:47.320 it ended up getting um a lot of support. You're now putting out uh something when it uh you're 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:56.240 trying to another maybe what's seen as a long shot move when it comes to trying to impeach the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. There's a new 00:04:53.320 --> 00:05:02.520 CNN report out about one of the aircraft carriers that was basically out at sea for much longer 00:05:00.280 --> 00:05:08.520 um than typically would be. And CNN has learned that the Navy Secretary told Congress eight sailors assigned to the 00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:14.200 USS Lincoln Strike Group attempted suicide. When you hear that report, what 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:20.680 goes through your mind? Well, you know, I introduced articles of 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:26.200 impeachment against Pete Hegseth. And they just did a poll on this, 51 to 34 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:33.280 Americans support impeaching Pete Hegseth. I may add another article of impeachment when I return to Congress 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:40.240 because they ran out the clock, they sent us home so they wouldn't have to vote on it. He's downplayed sort of the 00:05:38.200 --> 00:05:48.440 fatalities and the casualties, I believe, and underreported what's going on in Iran and also on that ship. And I 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:56.600 think there needs to be accountability there. As you well know, they've kicked people out of the White House and now they've invited them back, but they're 00:05:53.440 --> 00:06:01.680 still a vacuum there at the Pentagon where they haven't brought in the the 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:07.040 typical new sources who keep them honest here and also protect our soldiers by 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:13.120 making sure that the these casualties get reported. Yeah, and obviously we heard from a lot 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:20.760 of those sailors in terms of what it was like on that and it's just it's tough to hear. And I mentioned your your other effort 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:29.240 on Capitol Hill with Jeffrey Epstein and now trying for a second discharge petition. Today we've learned that Jeffrey Epstein's long-time attorney and 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:34.520 his accountant are both reportedly under federal investigation. Major questions on what that's going to 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:41.320 look like. What went through your mind when you heard that news? Well, when I heard Richard Kahn's name, 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:47.919 it brought me back to what I was doing last week when when Speaker Johnson sent us home early, I stayed another day and 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:54.720 went over to the DOJ and looked at some more of the redacted files and I see Richard Kahn's name there referring to 00:06:52.919 --> 00:07:03.400 an instance where they interviewed him and I can't find the interview notes. And so there are more questions to be answered 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:09.000 and there are more files to release and that's why we've done the Epstein files transparency act part two. By the way, 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:15.200 Kaitlan, we got the number of Republicans we need and now we're just two Democrats short. With those two 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:21.520 Democrats were out sick or for family reasons. As soon as we get back, that second discharge petition for this 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:28.560 second bill that Ro Khanna and Teresa Leger Fernandez and I introduced, it's going to succeed and they'll have seven 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:34.840 legislative days to deal with it after the midterms. That's one of the reasons I'm sitting here talking to you remotely 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:39.480 and not in DC is because they sent us home to avoid this issue until after the midterms.