Major Altercations Break Out in Capitol as GOP Stunt Backfires

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They're trying to pull these public stunts of like getting in the faces of Democratic lawmakers.

And the democratic lawmakers are not taking it and they're fighting back.

We have it caught on camera, folks.

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

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 MAGA Republicans are.

Lawler's 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 going to die in your district.

This was a powerful moment.

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.

You're not going to talk.

You're not going to talk to me.

Wasted.

You're not going to talk to me

and talk over the New York residents because you don't want to hear what I have to say.

Oh, I'm listening.

Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Oh, because Because you showed up.

Is that the way it is?

You showed up.

You showed up.

And so you voted for this one big.

You can extend it right now.

Permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire.

So 90% of America.

If they can get a permanent extension.

90% of American working classes.

Then 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.

And then you'll see MAGA Mike just like shows up.

It's like, I'm here, everybody.

I'm here.

Maybe you just got to open up the government.

No, it's the Trump and Republican government shutdown.

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.

Here, play this clip.

Ms.

Krajava, recollect Krajava, 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 to her as soon as you guys vote for the government.

You don't want to be up to chief discharge.

How much of that is?

It's totally absurd.

You guys are experts in red areas.

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.

Let me finish.

The House Oversight Committee.

This is an excuse, but she doesn't sign on to that.

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.

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.

Watch this powerful moment right here.

Let's play this clip.

Why don't we sign on to your business?

Did you get permission from your boss?

Why didn't we sign on right now?

Did your boss Donald Trump easily extend yourself?

Did your boss Donald Trump get you permission?

Yes, he is.

No, he's not.

By the way, let me ask you a question.

Why did you vote to show you?

Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a question.

For years, you always

show how we need to get to the point.

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

You're embarrassing yourself right now.

You can't sign on to the ceiling.

You're chasing yourself.

You're an embarrassing.

You can sign on to the bill.

Let me ask you a question.

You got four Democrats on the corner.

Let me ask you this one.

Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a question

here.

You voted for the one thing I could vote, correct?

I voted for a large bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history.

By the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4,000 tax cut.

Are you against that?

You're embarrassing yourself.

You want to cut the standard deduction in the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.

Fraud and abuse, by the way.

Tom D'Anapolis, the Democrat controller of New York.

Let me ask you a question.

Point it out that $1.2 billion.

Listen,

you're not going to talk to me.

You're not going to talk to me and talk over me

because you don't want to hear what I have to say.

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

Because you showed up.

You showed up.

You showed up.

And so you voted for this one big ugly bill.

A permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire.

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

get to reimburse the hospitals less than these like migrants do?

Less than, I mean, it was just such a bizarre press conference that Republicans had.

This was the Democratic press conference, though, on point,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Then we have Democratic Congressmember McGovern.

Here's what he said.

Let's play it.

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

Yeah.

You know,

Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people, people on SNAP, people on Medicaid.

Well, I got an idea.

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.

This is a serious crisis we're in, and we can avoid it.

We can avoid people losing their health care.

We can keep the government open.

They need to show up.

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

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.

Will you call Speaker Johnson and implore him to swear in Adelaide Grahava?

We have made clear privately and publicly that Representative Adelita Grahava should be sworn in immediately

without delay.

Mike Johnson swore in

two Republican members of Congress immediately after their

April

1st special elections were concluded during a pro forma session

when no one else was even around.

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.

Republicans acted with great urgency

to swear in two

right-wing members of Congress

to do in the American people

in order to reward the wealthy, the well-off, and well-connected.

But now at this moment, Representative-elect Adelita Grahava,

who won

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

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

What's the delay with respect to Representative-elect Adelita Grahava?

Does it have anything to do with Republicans

continuing effort to hide the Epstein files

from the American people?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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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.

That's brilliant.

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 adjourn?

House Democrats were here last week.

House Democrats are here this week.

House Democrats will be here next week.

House Republicans are on vacation right now.

That's extraordinary.

They canceled votes last week.

House Republicans have canceled votes this week.

We haven't been in session

since September 19th.

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

As we

approached the government shutdown and are now in day eight of the Trump Republican shutdown.

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.

And so we've repeatedly made clear we will sit down as Democrats anytime, anyplace, anywhere

with anyone,

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.

Then you have Congressmember Ted Liu.

Here he goes.

Having served on active duty in the U.S.

military, it is insane not to pay our troops.

Some of them are in high-risk missions, and you want them thinking about whether they're going to get paid, whether they can care for their family.

You don't want them focused on that.

You want them to focus on our national security, and this is going to affect our national security.

House Democrats are here.

Republicans are on vacation.

They need to come back and work, and we need to pay our troops.

Here we have Congressman Aguilar.

Let's play it.

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

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

just this week.

A 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 a year will see their annual premiums rise by 200%,

$13,000 a year.

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 $88,000 a year is looking at having their premium doubled.

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.

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 and these sort of

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

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.

Oh, MAGA Mike, you definitely know what the American people are thinking about, MAGA Mike.

Here to play this clip.

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

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

How come hearing?

What's that?

How come?

Well, it sounds like...

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, think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that, not somebody like this.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

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.

Who's more responsible for the government shutdown?

Democrats or Republicans?

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 would be responsible?

I would assume the Republicans.

Republicans.

I think it's the Republicans.

One party isn't in control of all three branches of government, and I don't think that there's really any reasonable way to spin this as the Democrats' fault.

I would say the pubs.

Republicans

go for one thing themselves.

I mean, with everything that's going on and everything that Trump does, I think we can.

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.

And he held, he took that money and he threw a rock show to celebrate his new book called, it's a new book, Construction of the Miracle, taking our taxpayer money, pyrotechnics everywhere, firework 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.

How utterly despicable is that?

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