Major Altercations Break Out in Capitol as GOP Stunt Backfires

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Speaker 8 So two major altercations just broke out in the Capitol building as MAGA Republicans are getting so desperate, they're trying to pull these public stunts of like getting in the faces of Democratic lawmakers.

Speaker 8 And the Democratic lawmakers are not taking it and they're fighting back. We have it caught on camera, folks.

Speaker 8 So, the first altercation involved MAGA Republican Congressmember Mike Lawler from New York.

Speaker 8 He brought the press with him and he was going to confront Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries to jeffries face but leader jeffries was ready jeffries comes out of his office gets into lawler's face and just utterly exposes lawler and shows how weak and pathetic lawler and these maga republicans are lawless like can you sign this and jeffries is like you are there just to support the billionaires you're ripping away people's health care people are gonna die in your district this was a powerful moment.

Speaker 8 I think this was Hakeem Jeffries' moment. Watch for yourself.
I'm going to play you this shorter clip of what went down first. Let's play it.

Speaker 2 You're not going to talk, you're not going to talk to me. Wasted.
You're not going to talk to me

Speaker 2 and talk over New York residents because you don't want to hear what I have to say. Oh, I'm listening.

Speaker 9 So, why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 2 Oh, it's not that. Because you showed up.
Is that the way it is? You showed up. You showed up.
And so you voted for this one big on the bill.

Speaker 10 You can extend it, right?

Speaker 2 A permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire bill. So 90% of Americans can get a permanent extension.
90% of Americans

Speaker 2 can

Speaker 8 the other altercation involved MAGA Mike Johnson trying to interrupt a press briefing that was being conducted by the Arizona senators, Senator Gallego and Senator Kelly, who were calling for Adelita Grijalva, the representative elect, the Congresswoman elect from Arizona's 7th congressional district, to be sworn in.

Speaker 8 And then you'll see MAGA Mike just like shows up and it's like, I'm here, everybody. I'm here.
Maybe you just got to open open up the government. No, it's the Trump and Republican government shutdown.

Speaker 8 And I loved how Senator Gallego and Senator Kelly also got in MAGA Mike's face and said, This is about your cover-up of the Epstein files. This is strength.
This is how it's done.

Speaker 8 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 2 Ms. Grahava, recollect Ms.

Speaker 11 Grahava, has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the House was out of session. So I am anxious to administer the oath of her.
This is the statement.

Speaker 11 You guys just don't talk about the government.

Speaker 11 You don't want to be on the discharge. How much?

Speaker 11 Totally absurd. You guys are experts in red areas.

Speaker 11 It has nothing to do with Epstein. The House Oversight Committee, the House Oversight Committee, is working on the Epstein files right now, releasing 34,000 pages and more on the website.

Speaker 11 Let me finish. The House Oversight Committee.

Speaker 11 This is an excuse, so she doesn't sign on to that.

Speaker 8 Now, let me show you the longer interaction of what went down when you had Mike Lawler, the MAGA Republican Congressmember from New York, try to approach Leader Jeffries in this publicity stunt.

Speaker 8 Leader Jeffries walks out of the office drawing, gets right up in Lawler's face, looks at him and says, you realize how pathetic you are? How pathetic. You come in here and you're saying lies.

Speaker 8 Watch this powerful moment right here. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we sign on right now. Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 Did you get permission from your boss? Why didn't we sign on right now? Did your boss Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 Yes, he is. No, he's not.
By the way,

Speaker 2 let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 9 For years, you always

Speaker 2 show me that.

Speaker 2 You're making a show of this to make yourself relevant.

Speaker 2 You're going to sign on to this. You're embarrassing yourself right now.
You can't sign on to this. The only thing you're going to do is

Speaker 2 sign on to the bill. Let me ask you a question.
You have four Democrats on you. Let me ask you a question on your own.
Let me ask you a question. It's a question.
Let me ask you a question here.

Speaker 2 You voted for the one thing I've been born, correct?

Speaker 9 I voted for

Speaker 2 a bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history.

Speaker 9 By the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4,000 tax cut. Are you against that?

Speaker 2 You're embarrassing me.

Speaker 2 You want to cut the standard deduction in the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. You voted for that.

Speaker 9 Fraud and abuse, by the way.

Speaker 2 You voted for that. Tom DiNapoli is the permanent controller of New York.
Let me ask your question. Point it out that $1.2 billion.

Speaker 2 Listen,

Speaker 2 you're not going to talk to me.

Speaker 2 You're not going to talk to me

Speaker 2 and talk over me

Speaker 2 because you don't want to hear what I have to say. Oh, I'm listening.
So, why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 2 Because you showed up.

Speaker 2 You showed up. You showed up.
And so you voted for this one big ugly bill.

Speaker 2 You can extend it for a permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire.

Speaker 8 And then Democrats went out and held, I thought, a great press conference in contrast to what Magamike and the Republicans today, their talking point is, do you all know that young pregnant women, they get to reimburse the hospitals less than these like migrants do.

Speaker 8 I mean, it was just such a bizarre press conference that Republicans had. This was the Democratic press conference, though, on point,

Speaker 8 on the side of the American people. Watch what goes down as Democratic leader Jeffrey says.
Our position is clear. The Affordable Care Act subsidies need to be extended permanently.

Speaker 8 We should help all Americans have health care the way Donald Trump is helping subsidize the lifestyles of his rich and shameless friends. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 2 Our position that has been articulated in a bill that was introduced by Senator Patty Murray and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is a permanent extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits to match the permanent extension that Republicans on their own saw fit to do for the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected as part of the Republican continuing effort to subsidize the lifestyles of the rich and shameless.

Speaker 8 More from Hakeem Jefferies right here saying this is the second time it's been shut down under Donald Trump. He's nowhere to be found.
He's out there golfing. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 2 If we're going to get a resolution here, we need presidential leadership. That's what Donald Trump himself said 12 years ago in 2013.
If a shutdown happens, the buck stops with the president.

Speaker 2 This is now the second time that the government has been shut down under Donald Trump, and he's in the presidential witness protection program. He's nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 He's got time to be on the golf course,

Speaker 2 but apparently doesn't have time to sit down with Democrats in the House and the Senate to reopen the government.

Speaker 8 Then we have Democratic Congressmember McGovern. Here's what he said.
Let's play it.

Speaker 2 I don't know if anyone else wanted to add. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 12 Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people, people on SNAP, people on Medicaid. Well, I got an idea.

Speaker 12 Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to Congress and do your goddamn job. I mean, millions of people are about to lose their health care.

Speaker 12 This is a serious crisis we're in, and we can avoid it. We can avoid people losing their health care, and we can keep the government open.
They need to show up.

Speaker 8 Back to Democratic leader Jeffries saying, you know, Republicans are obviously trying to cover up the Epstein files right now.

Speaker 8 They know that Adalita Grijalva, Congresswoman-elect from Arizona's 7th congressional district, would be the 218 signature on the discharge petition. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 14 Will you call Speaker Johnson and implore him to swear in Adelita Grijalva?

Speaker 2 We have made clear privately and publicly that Representative Adelita Grijalva should be sworn in immediately

Speaker 2 without delay.

Speaker 2 Mike Johnson swore in

Speaker 2 two Republican members of Congress immediately after their

Speaker 2 April 1st special elections were concluded

Speaker 2 during a pro forma session

Speaker 2 when no one else was even around.

Speaker 2 And that was done by Republicans because they wanted to jam their one big ugly bill down the throats of the American people so they could rip away health care, steal food from children, and enact massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors.

Speaker 2 Republicans acted with great urgency

Speaker 2 to swear in two

Speaker 2 right-wing members of Congress

Speaker 2 to do in the American people

Speaker 2 in order to reward the wealthy, the well-off, and well-connected. But now at this moment, Representative-elect Adelita Grajava, who won

Speaker 2 by much wider margins than those two Republican members, there is no dispute or controversy relative to her election.

Speaker 2 And so many of us are asking the question: why the delay, Mike?

Speaker 2 What's the delay with respect to Representative-elect Adelita Grahava? Does it have anything to do with Republicans

Speaker 2 continuing effort to hide the Epstein files

Speaker 2 from the American people?

Speaker 2 inquiring minds want to know.

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Speaker 8 This is the fight that we wanted to see, right? Democratic leader Jeffries over here saying, these extremists, these MAGA Republican extremists, they ain't even showing up for work. Let's play it.

Speaker 8 That's right.

Speaker 2 Thank you, bro.

Speaker 16 Leader Jeffries, what do you make of Speaker Johnson canceling House sessions this week? And when will you call for the House? When do you think he will call for the House to respond?

Speaker 2 House Democrats were here last week. House Democrats are here this week.
House Democrats will be here next week.

Speaker 2 House Republicans are on vacation right now. That's extraordinary.

Speaker 2 They canceled votes last week. House Republicans have canceled votes this week.

Speaker 2 We haven't been in session

Speaker 2 since September 19th.

Speaker 2 And on that day, Republicans got out of town before sundown, never to be seen again.

Speaker 2 As we approached the government shutdown and are now in day eight of the Trump Republican shutdown.

Speaker 2 And these extremists don't even want to show up to work when they're requiring hardworking federal employees to show up to work without pay because of the Republican shutdown.

Speaker 2 And so we've repeatedly made clear

Speaker 2 we will sit down as Democrats anytime, anyplace, anywhere

Speaker 2 with anyone,

Speaker 2 our Republican colleagues, either here in the Congress, or go back to the Oval Office to reopen the government, to enter into a spending agreement that actually makes life better for the American people and that addresses the Republican health care crisis.

Speaker 8 Then you have Congressmember Ted Liu.

Speaker 2 Here he goes.

Speaker 17 Having served on active duty in the U.S. military, it is insane not to pay our troops.

Speaker 17 Some of them are in high-risk missions, and you want them thinking about whether they can get paid, whether they can care for their family. You don't want them focused on that.

Speaker 17 You want them to focus on our national security. And this is going to affect our national security.

Speaker 17 House Democrats are here, Republicans are on vacation, they need to come back and work, and we need to pay our troops.

Speaker 8 Here we have Congressman Aguilar. Let's play it.

Speaker 13 Take, for example, Iowa's first congressional district, represented by Congresswoman Marianette Miller-Meeks.

Speaker 13 This, by the way, is the same member who said she'll hold town halls when hell freezes over

Speaker 13 just this week. A 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 a year will see their annual premiums rise by two hundred percent thirteen thousand dollars a year

Speaker 20 or another and here we have the democratic whip congresswoman clark let's play it and as i looked in my district as premium notices are coming out a couple in massachusetts that makes eighty eight thousand dollars a year is looking at having their premium doubled.

Speaker 20 If we go to Speaker Johnson's hometown of Benton, Louisiana, that same couple making $88,000 will see a tripling of their premium. Three times.

Speaker 20 That could be around $23,000 a year for that couple to pay. People can't afford that.
60% of families in this country cannot meet the basics, cannot afford the basics for their family.

Speaker 20 And these sort of

Speaker 20 dramatic jumps in premiums are what is going to pull them under.

Speaker 20 So here we are, and we implore the Republican Party, go talk to your neighbors and hear their anxieties about what's happening to their health care, what's happening in your shutdown you're imposing on them, and get on a plane and come back to Washington and get to work in reopening this government and protecting health care and the American worker.

Speaker 8 And what's MAGA Mike been doing? Oh, talking about how he doesn't like Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and how Lee Greenwood should be the halftime show.

Speaker 8 Oh, MAGA Mike, you definitely know what the American people are thinking about, MAGA Mike. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 Any reaction to Bad Bunny being chosen as the Super Bowl halftime?

Speaker 19 I didn't even know who Bad Bunny was, but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view.

Speaker 2 How come here?

Speaker 2 What's that? How come

Speaker 19 well it sounds like uh

Speaker 19 he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience and i think you know there's so many eyes on the super bowl a lot of young impressionable children and i think in my view you would have lee greenwood or role models doing that not not somebody like this thank you mr speaker

Speaker 8 And what are the American people thinking our friend Don Lemon interviewed Americans on the street to see how they feel about this shutdown? Play this clip.

Speaker 18 Who's more responsible for the government shutdown? democrats or republicans

Speaker 10 republicans republicans republicans definitely yeah republicans why is that they have the power republicans why so they control the house the senate and the white house who else should be responsible i i would assume the republicans republicans i think it's the republicans one party is in in control of all three branches of government and i i don't think that there's really any reasonable way to spin this is the democrats fault i would say the pubs republicans uh go for one thing themselves I mean, with everything that's going on and everything that Trump does, I think we can.

Speaker 8 And while this shutdown's taking place, folks, just know that $20 billion of your taxpayer money has now bailed out Donald Trump's MAGA puppet in Argentina, Javier Malo.

Speaker 8 And he held, he took that money and he threw a rock show to celebrate his new book.

Speaker 8 called uh it's a new book construction of the miracle taking our taxpayer money pyrotechnics everywhere fireworks show in Argentina with our taxpayer dollars, as Donald Trump does not want to extend Affordable Care Act tax subsidies and rip away health care.

Speaker 8 How utterly despicable is that? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers.
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