LOL! Republicans CRUMBLE Quicker than EXPECTED

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the accelerating implosion of Republicans in the House and elsewhere.

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Speaker 5 The entire Republican House conference has been thrown into utter chaos.

Speaker 5 As I reported earlier, Donald Trump ordered Speaker of the House MAGA Mike Johnson to fire Mike Turner, Republican congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee.

Speaker 5 Turner was a big supporter of NATO, a big supporter of Ukraine. Trump wanted him gone.

Speaker 5 This sent shockwaves throughout the Republican conference and the House of Representatives because for some reason they believed there was going to be this, quote, reconciliation agenda and bring the five families of the Republican Republican Party together.

Speaker 5 Turner being fired and pushed out. He's been a Congress member since 2003.
Very well liked, kind of a bipartisan guy.

Speaker 5 I didn't like Turner, but having Turner in the intelligence community or in the intelligence committee and chairing it was something that was beneficial for all Americans, regardless of what your politics are.

Speaker 5 But now the MAGA Republicans are fractured totally. You know, what they keep trying to sell to their base to keep them going are the gimmicks, right?

Speaker 5 Like what Donald Trump say he was going to do in the past 48 hours?

Speaker 5 He goes, oh, now I'm going to create an external revenue service when I tariff all of these nations, even though tariffs are taxes on American companies.

Speaker 5 Donald Trump says we're going to have the external revenue service collect that money. What are you even talking about?

Speaker 5 So you've got MAGA people like this guy on Twitter saying, Trump to abolish the IRS and create an external revenue service. This has huge potential for the American people to prosper.

Speaker 5 To which the comments, even from MAGA people, were like, when are the eggs going down? You're not in his tax bracket. Other MAGA Republicans are waking up to this as well.

Speaker 5 For example, Charlie Kirk is out there bragging how on the stage with Donald Trump during the inauguration will be Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together right next to Donald Trump, right next to Trump's cabinet picks, to which

Speaker 5 MAGA people were like, what? These elite billionaires?

Speaker 5 What does that have to do with what Donald Trump promised us? We're seeing a lot of that.

Speaker 5 Take a look at this moment as well. This is on Fox.
They bring in Charlie Kirk to talk about this,

Speaker 5 how everybody wants to be Trump's pal.

Speaker 5 And you're going to hear what goes down here. Listen to this.

Speaker 9 Joining me now is someone who knows a little bit about this. Charlie Kirk, turning point USA founder.

Speaker 9 Charlie, it's great to see you.

Speaker 5 You hear the producer there in the background going, oh, S-word right there. Wild.
But folks, this is what's going on at Mar-a-Lago. Can't you all relate to this? I'm being sarcastic, of course.

Speaker 5 Trump is now selling Trump burgers at his golf courses, and you can get Trump's face on your burger. That's completely normal.
I'm being facetious right there.

Speaker 5 Take you to the floor of the House of Representatives, which this is what MAGA Republicans are talking about.

Speaker 5 During a hearing on telework,

Speaker 5 you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace talking about

Speaker 5 penises and vaginas. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 6 Can you, a candidate to be chair of the Democrat Party, define what a woman is for me today?

Speaker 12 Madam, or a comment.

Speaker 6 Can you define what a woman is?

Speaker 12 Oh, yes.

Speaker 6 What is a woman?

Speaker 10 You're going to ask me to define what a woman is.

Speaker 6 Yes, I am right now.

Speaker 12 Well, I'm talking about. You just said you could.

Speaker 13 Explain it to me.

Speaker 10 I'm talking to a woman right now, distinguished woman.

Speaker 6 What is a woman? Representative. What is a woman?

Speaker 10 I think you're kind of denigrating the purpose of this.

Speaker 6 What is it? You can't define what a woman is. All right.
In an effort to be fair,

Speaker 13 in an effort to be fair and unbiased.

Speaker 6 In an effort to be fair and unbiased, can you define what a man is for me?

Speaker 13 I have two sons that are men. Yes.
I have a series.

Speaker 5 And over here, we have, as part of the questioning of Martin O'Malley, who stepped down as Biden's Social Security Administration head.

Speaker 5 He's running to be the chair of the DNC.

Speaker 5 More questions from Nancy Mace about

Speaker 5 genitals. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 6 No. Is this in reference to allowing men in women's bathrooms?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 Is this in reference to forcing women and girls to undress in front of men in the locker room?

Speaker 5 Oh, come on.

Speaker 6 Yes or no?

Speaker 12 Congresswoman.

Speaker 6 This is your party's platform. Do you understand what I'm laying out for you? Do you understand anything?

Speaker 10 I understand what you're trying to lay out, but our party's platform is the economic security and the well-being

Speaker 12 of every man, woman, and child in the United States of America.

Speaker 12 That's our party's platform.

Speaker 6 I'm going to reclaim my time.

Speaker 5 This basis time. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene got in on the action because this is what Republicans are talking about.
This is how they're trying to distract. Let's play it.

Speaker 11 I'd like to ask you another question. Since you're very interested in being DNC chair, you are, after all, a lifelong Democrat politician.

Speaker 11 I don't even know if you had a job in the real world, but you have been an elected politician for years. Mr.
O'Malley,

Speaker 11 you're also a Catholic, are you not? You're also a Catholic, are you not?

Speaker 11 I am. Do you serve God or do you serve the Democrat Party?

Speaker 10 I serve God.

Speaker 11 Okay, then, Mr. O'Malley.
Mr.

Speaker 13 Chairman, as a Roman Catholic, I take offense

Speaker 12 at the suggestion that somebody have

Speaker 13 service to Christianity. I reclaim my time.

Speaker 11 Mr. O'Malley, will you be supporting the murder of the unborn up until the day of birth like your party does?

Speaker 11 As DNC chair, will you be supporting the murder of innocent unborn people? Is that in line with your faith in God and the Catholic Church?

Speaker 10 I trust the judgment of women and doctors over the judgment of government.

Speaker 11 No, do you trust God's judgment? Do you trust God that he loves and has created every single human being? Do you support the murder of unborn children?

Speaker 11 And are you going to uphold that evil practice that the Democrat Party wants to continue? You see, abortions, over 95% of them are unintended pregnancies. They use abortions as birth control.

Speaker 11 So are you going to continue the birth control practice of murdering the unborn children as chair of the DNC? Will that be a policy you'll be supporting?

Speaker 10 Pro-choice, and I trust the judgment of women and their doctors over the judgments of government.

Speaker 11 Well, thank you for letting letting God know where you stand with the murder of the government.

Speaker 13 I talk to God every day.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Well, you might want to talk to him a little bit more, Mr.
O'Malley, because you're definitely in the wrong. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman. I yield back.

Speaker 5 But while they're doing that, what are they doing? They're trying to condition aid

Speaker 5 to California on getting rid of the debt ceiling so Trump can hook up the billionaires with more tax cuts.

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Speaker 5 This is Democratic Congressmember Mike Levin. And here he's like, you know, conditioning

Speaker 5 aid to a disaster relief on Trump agendas. That's

Speaker 5 unheard of in American politics or just in our system. We help people who are going through emergencies.
Here, listen to this.

Speaker 14 Mr. Speaker, some House Republicans are threatening to withhold disaster aid to California unless certain unknown conditions are met.

Speaker 14 There's even talk about attaching disaster aid to an increase in the debt ceiling. My friends, this could be your state.

Speaker 14 Never in our nation's history has the federal government placed such politically driven conditions on disaster aid to its own citizens.

Speaker 14 We can have good faith debates about water policy and infrastructure deficiencies, and we should. But that's not what this is about.
This is a bad faith effort to use California as a punching bag.

Speaker 14 This is about the promotion of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies. Not to mention it's a way out for House Republicans.

Speaker 14 They can't raise a debt ceiling on their own, so they want to tie that to DisasterAid. It's unconscionable.

Speaker 14 To my Republican friends, it's unacceptable and downright shameful to use the suffering of Californians in need or anyone in need to solve your internal political disputes. Please stop.

Speaker 14 Stop playing games. Let's get the disaster aid to the people who need it, and let's do it now.

Speaker 5 Thank you. And by the way, take a look at this.
You may have seen this already.

Speaker 5 This was the sign behind the MAGA Republicans during the Senate confirmation hearings. D-E-I-N-R, Miltery, M-I-L-T-A-R-Y.
I think don't even know how to spell.

Speaker 5 Let me show you this clip of AOC from the House floor here, play it.

Speaker 15 Here we are today.

Speaker 15 Republicans who have voted against, consistently, against the Violence Against Women Act, who have taken away the right of all women to choose and have control over their own body,

Speaker 15 who, as women are bleeding out in parking lots across the country, standing there, allowing us to die,

Speaker 15 now want to pretend today that they care about women. And why?

Speaker 15 To open up gender and yes, genital examinations into little girls in this country in the so-called name of attacking trans girls. And to that, today, what we have to say are two words, not today.

Speaker 15 The majority right now says there's no place in this bill that says it opens up for genital examinations. Well, here's the thing.
There's no enforcement mechanism in this bill.

Speaker 15 And when there is no enforcement mechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism.

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