GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear

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Speaker 6 This is what I like to see. You've got Democrats, you've got Senator Bernie Sanders and others going on the offense and saying to the people, It's time to go to the streets.
It's time to protest.

Speaker 6 It's time to stand stand up against authoritarianism. Go on the offense.
Then you've got these MAGA Republicans and their propaganda machines on the defense. This is what I like to see.

Speaker 6 I want to highlight what's going on with some of these stronger pro-democracy voices. And I want to show you what it looks like to see MAGA Republicans on their heels.

Speaker 6 So here we have Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont saying this struggle against authoritarianism is going to require we the people to take to the streets. Play this clip.

Speaker 7 At the end of the day,

Speaker 7 the struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk, the struggle against authoritarianism, the fight to make sure that the working class of this country gets a fair shake, that is not going to be won here in Capitol Hill.

Speaker 7 It's going to be won. by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, you know what, we fought and died for democracy.
We're not going to move toward authoritarianism.

Speaker 7 We fought to create a country that works for all, not just the billionaire class. That's the struggle.
And I'm going to be active in trying to rally the American people to do just that.

Speaker 6 Exactly, Bernie. Exactly.
Then Bernie Sanders talks about how we're not just dealing with this move toward authoritarianism. We're dealing with what is new to America.

Speaker 6 Yes, politicians have always lied, but the way we are seeing the big

Speaker 6 every day,

Speaker 6 it's like Nazi Germany. Play this clip.

Speaker 7 Out of how many millions?

Speaker 8 There's

Speaker 7 tens of millions. So when they say tens of millions, that would be a lot of money.
This is what we are dealing with. We're not only dealing with oligarchy, the incredible power of the very, very rich.

Speaker 7 We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America. You know, politicians have always lied, nothing new about that.

Speaker 7 But the level that we're seeing right now, the big lie, over and over again.

Speaker 7 And it goes out, there's a big lie, and then it goes out on Musk's Twitter to, what, several hundred million people, repeated over and over again.

Speaker 7 Now the word is out there, oh, people on on Social Security, 150 years of age. Can you believe it? The whole thing is corrupt.
It's broken. Well, where does that lead you, Caitlin?

Speaker 7 What's the next step?

Speaker 7 If government can't do anything, if Social Security doesn't work, if Medicare doesn't work, if Medicaid doesn't work, we're going to get rid of all those programs and we're going to give it over to the billionaire class to run it.

Speaker 8 That's what you think they're ultimately trying to do?

Speaker 7 Yeah, at the end of the day,

Speaker 7 not only the Social Security. A, they want massive cuts.
to programs for the working class in this country in order to give tax breaks to the to the very rich.

Speaker 7 And then, they want to move to the privatization of every important government agency.

Speaker 6 And here, Bernie Sanders says there should be co-equal branches of government, but with the way Congress is right now with the Republicans in control, they've given up their authority to Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 Play this clip.

Speaker 7 Elon Musk is clearly running the show, the wealthiest person in the world who has enormous conflicts of interests.

Speaker 7 who is helping to fund right-wing extremist organizations all over the world, who is looking forward to get massive tax breaks from Congress. He's running the show.

Speaker 8 So if he's technically, if he's running the show, but not on paper, as they essentially argue, but you say in practice, he basically is, you're a co-equal branch of government as a senator on

Speaker 7 the I kind of thought so, but I think you have to explain that to the president.

Speaker 8 Do you feel that you have oversight when it comes to what Elon Musk is doing?

Speaker 7 Look, what we're seeing right now, Caitlin, is a very dangerous moment. I'm laughing here, but it is not funny.

Speaker 7 This country is moving very rapidly under Trump into an authoritarian form of society.

Speaker 6 You know who I think has been doing a really good job lately? Senator Chris Murphy, I think has been doing a really good job.

Speaker 6 Here he is talking about Pete Hegseth, the unqualified Secretary of Defense, who was a Fox host. Play this clip.

Speaker 10 Pete Hegseth got the job because he's the weekend news anchor on Fox, and Donald Trump watches a lot of Fox.

Speaker 10 And so he decided to make that guy the head of the Department of Defense and our chief negotiator in Ukraine. Pete Hagseth is screwing it up badly, but of course he is.

Speaker 10 He has no experience negotiating with anybody. All he knows how to do is read the news.

Speaker 10 So nobody should be surprised that this national security cabinet is badly mismanaging the early stages of this negotiation and are going to end up in a a settlement that ultimately likes likely gets a lot of Americans killed in the medium and long run.

Speaker 12 Just to play devil's ass.

Speaker 6 And here you have Senator Murphy again explaining why Donald Trump wants to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals and kind of put it into his own sovereign wealth fund for him and the billionaires to divvy up.

Speaker 6 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 12 President Trump is adamant about the U.S. getting access to Ukraine's supply of rare earth minerals.
Ukraine's president says he's open to it in exchange for security guarantees.

Speaker 12 But then President Trump also says that the U.S. would not take part in any peacekeeping force.

Speaker 12 But if European countries wanted to send peacekeeping forces, he's, quote, all for it. Would any kind of peacekeeping force without U.S.
involvement be,

Speaker 12 I mean, feasible? Would that be enough of a deterrent?

Speaker 10 Well, I mean, Donald Trump pretends like he's some great deal maker. It's pretty amazing that he has thrown out any any leverage that could help in these negotiations.

Speaker 10 Right from the start, Donald Trump has said, yeah, the United States isn't going to take part in any security guarantee after the war ends. The United States isn't going to continue to fund Ukraine.

Speaker 10 The United States doesn't believe that Ukraine should be able to regain the territory that it's lost. Essentially, you're giving away all the leverage that you might have at the negotiation.

Speaker 11 table.

Speaker 10 But let's also be clear about why he wants these mineral rights.

Speaker 10 This is just about the billionaires billionaires that he serves that could make a ton of money in Ukraine if they are taking those minerals out of the ground and selling them globally for a profit.

Speaker 10 So it's consistent with the way that Donald Trump operates that his number one agenda would be to gain mineral rights for his billionaire donors instead of actually trying to secure the freedom of Ukraine and American security interests in the region.

Speaker 6 Bingo, just call it like it is. Don't hold back.
Don't mince words. And you know who doesn't hold back and who doesn't mince words? Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
He or she is.

Speaker 6 Let's play it.

Speaker 13 It's not even just nonsense. It's just that they're idiots.
I mean, these are the same guys, remember, as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, right? They're like, oh, wait a minute.

Speaker 13 We needed those guys. Oh, can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.

Speaker 13 Like, I don't know how anyone in this country can look at this administration and feel some semblance of any type of confidence, right?

Speaker 13 And this is all at the same time, like Elon doesn't want us talking about the fact that he has received almost a billion dollars worth of new contract money from the U.S. government in just two weeks.

Speaker 13 $400 million for Tesla and over $300 million for SpaceX. This is nothing more than a money grab.
He's not out there trying to save money for the American. American people.
That's not what he's doing.

Speaker 13 He's lying in his pockets.

Speaker 13 And at the same time, he's outraging people who don't know exactly how we spend our money and how it benefits us to make sure that things like HIV and AIDS doesn't become the worldwide pandemic that it used to be.

Speaker 13 Exactly. Same thing with everything else that we're dealing with.

Speaker 6 And I love this one right here. Let's play it as well.

Speaker 5 You were involved in a hearing with Elon Musk about condoms.

Speaker 7 Right. Do you remember this whole thing?

Speaker 13 It wasn't with Elon. Elon, if you're watching, come through, boo, because you haven't shown up to the Doge

Speaker 14 subcommittee yet. Right.
And you called him out at that subcommittee.

Speaker 5 But this became weird because Buddy Carter, your colleague from Georgia, started talking about how we were giving condoms to the Taliban.

Speaker 5 And then Donald Trump himself, then it became about Gaza, but it would have to have been about 7,000 condoms per person.

Speaker 5 And then he said it was just Hamas, which all like none of it made sense, but it caused a lot of people to have to run around and follow the story and find out that we give condoms as part of USAID to prevent the spread of

Speaker 5 HIV to a place in Mozambique called Gaza province. Correct.
This is the nonsense we have to deal with here.

Speaker 13 It's not even just nonsense. It's just that they're idiots.
I mean, these are the same guys, remember, as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, right? They're like, oh, wait a minute.

Speaker 13 We needed those guys. Oh, can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.

Speaker 6 Next up, you have Democratic Senator Chris Van Holland.

Speaker 6 Here he is saying,

Speaker 6 you realize,

Speaker 6 just think about what Donald Trump, Marco Rubio are doing by going to Saudi Arabia and trying to cut deals, begging Putin to cut deals with America while Ukraine is fighting for its life.

Speaker 6 Could you imagine what that was like if in World War II, you had FDR in the middle of it saying to Churchill? I'll just let Van Holland says it better than me. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 12 Right now, but what they did in Munich with President Zelensky was primarily to bully them, right?

Speaker 12 The Secretary of Treasury handed him a piece of paper that essentially required Ukraine to hand over about 50% of its mineral reserves to the United States simply in payment of the support that we've already given, which we've given because they were a democratic country attacked by Putin and the Russian forces.

Speaker 12 I mean, can you imagine FDR in the middle of World War II saying to Churchill, you know, you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.

Speaker 12 That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin.

Speaker 6 Exactly.

Speaker 6 Exactly.

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Speaker 6 So let me show you some of these MAGA Republicans on the defense. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Katie Britt saying, this is, we're doing oversight.
This is great. Play this clip.

Speaker 16 When we were asking questions of the Biden administration, asking for answers, they refused to answer it. Look, oversight is back.
American taxpayers work hard for this money.

Speaker 16 They give it to the government. The government should be good stewards of it.
We must give people answers. We must do better.
The things that have been

Speaker 16 uncovered are actually mind-boggling. And I have a feeling we are just scratching the surface.
We're going to get to the bottom of it. We're $36 trillion in debt.

Speaker 16 Doing better started the day that we rolled in a Republican Congress on January 3rd. And when President Trump took office on January 20th, America is back, and this is just the beginning.

Speaker 6 And then you have the MAGA Republican Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who then tries to blame all of the plane crashes that have been taking place under the Trump administration on former President Biden.

Speaker 10 Play this clip.

Speaker 17 To cast blame on this administration for the policy failures of the last four years and say it's our fault is outrageous, but it's rich.

Speaker 11 So I want to talk quickly about the FAA.

Speaker 17 So it's true that less than 400 people were laid off at the FAA. There's 45,000 employees there.
So this is 0.89%.

Speaker 6 So utterly pathetic. And here's Sean Duffy again, again, Trump Secretary of Transportation lying and saying that there were more plane crashes under Biden than under Trump already.
And he goes,

Speaker 6 planes crash. That's just air crashes happen.
Could you imagine if Pete Budigig says, yeah, air crashes just happened here? Play this clip.

Speaker 17 But again, air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden than Donald Trump. But the point here is, we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes.

Speaker 17 We don't want people to die in aircraft, which is why what I've done is focus on how do you upgrade the system. But Will, you look at what's happened.

Speaker 17 The airspace around DCA, that was allowed to stay open under the last administration. The inspections that were done of the aircraft that have crashed, that was done under the last administration.

Speaker 17 So it is rich that they would come at this administration for the mistakes that they've made and blame us for the crashes.

Speaker 17 We're going to fix what they refused to fix over the course of their four years. And that's the mission of this department.

Speaker 15 And by the way, what Duffy's saying is false.

Speaker 6 And also, Trump's only been in office for a month. There was no commercial jet crash when former President Biden was in office.
Absolutely not.

Speaker 6 And again, here's how the MAGA Republican mouthpieces like John Roberts are trying to justify Elon Musk going through all of your personal files and your records. This is what they're saying on Fox.

Speaker 6 This is how they're they're trying to brainwash their audience of sheep. They're saying

Speaker 6 billionaires should be trusted. Billionaires are so rich that why would they care about your information? Like billionaires are the most trusted people in America.
That's what they're saying.

Speaker 6 And they're pumping this into the arms of their sheeple.

Speaker 6 Watch this clip.

Speaker 18 Elon Musk had access to all that stuff when he was running PayPal.

Speaker 11 Right.

Speaker 18 And if you're going to trust anybody with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, wouldn't you want it to be a guy who really doesn't need your money?

Speaker 9 Right. Right.
And also, does anyone actually think that Elon Musk is sitting in the West Wing right now going through people's tax returns? Give me a break.

Speaker 9 It's people who are appointed by the president within the agencies to conduct audits, to do their jobs. And people entrust their personal and private information to all kinds of people all the time.

Speaker 9 The IRS, for instance, had contracted thousands of folks to review sensitive information. Yet there's a problem.
And why is there a problem? Because they are Donald Trump appointees.

Speaker 6 It is so utterly, utterly ridiculous. So may I just compare right there John Roberts, who you saw with Jim Acosta? Jim Acosta was recently on the Midas Touch network.

Speaker 6 We've been collaborating a lot with Acosta since he left his other network. Let me show you what Acosta said to me when I interviewed him yesterday.
Play this clip.

Speaker 19 You know, I mean,

Speaker 19 it's hard to see somebody out Spicer Sean Spicer or out Huckabee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but Caroline Levitt, she is, she's making a run for it.

Speaker 19 You know, she just might get on Trump's all-star team of liars.

Speaker 19 You know, she might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, if she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team. You know,

Speaker 19 it's a sad and sorry state of affairs, but what we're seeing right now from this White House is exactly what we saw during the first Trump administration.

Speaker 19 They perform for the audience audience of one, Ben. Sean Spicer did this.
And as I used to say about Sean Spicer, the problem for Sean Spicer was not that Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer.

Speaker 19 It was that Sean Spicer became Melissa McCarthy and that caricature that we used to all laugh about on Saturday Night Live. And Caroline Levitt,

Speaker 19 unless they've already done it on SNL, I would have to think that something like that is in the works because the skit writes itself.

Speaker 19 They're such bad liars. I mean, it's sort of like, you know, anybody has kids out there when your kid is telling you a tall tale and you're just looking at them like,

Speaker 19 okay, Johnny, sure. Yeah, I believe you.
And you just walk away saying,

Speaker 19 what the hell? That kid's, you know, not telling me the truth.

Speaker 19 That's what's going on over at the White House right now. But make no mistake, they are performing for an audience of one.

Speaker 19 And so if she gets out in front of the cameras and starts telling the truth, Donald Trump, who is addicted to being on TV, hearing about himself on TV, reading about himself online.

Speaker 19 He's probably watching these briefings and thinking to himself, well, wait a minute, they can't go out there and tell the truth. They have to tell it the way I tell it, which is, you know, all lies.

Speaker 19 And, you know,

Speaker 19 we're right back where we were in that first Trump White House, Ben. You know, it is a very sad and sorry state of affairs.

Speaker 19 And I feel very sorry for the fact checkers out there because once again, they're working in overdrive.

Speaker 6 Wow, it's so good right there. Well, let me know what you think.
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