GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member

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Speaker 5 The civil war inside the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives continues. Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike Johnson to fire the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner.

Speaker 5 Mike Turner was a fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin and Russia, and a big supporter and proponent of Ukraine.

Speaker 5 Mike Turner also spoke his mind about the Russian propaganda that infected many of the MAGA Republicans. So he has been fired from his position.
He's been a member of Congress since 2003.

Speaker 5 Ohio's third congressional district became Ohio's 10th congressional district in the Dayton area. That's his congressional district.

Speaker 5 CNN was the four, it was the first to report it along with Punch Bowl, rather. And here's what we learned.

Speaker 5 House Speaker Mike Johnson is removing House GOP Representative Mike Turner as the chair of of the House Intelligence Committee. A source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Speaker 5 Manu Raju explained, Jim Himes, top Democrat, the ranking member on the House Intel Committee, just told a group of us that removing Turner, quote, sends a shiver down my spine and that he is

Speaker 5 enormously concerned.

Speaker 5 said Turner isn't the kind of guy who was quick to, quote, bend the knee to Trump and kept his eye on the prize of oversight and trying to protect our country from Russian propaganda.

Speaker 5 That's why Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike to get rid of Mike Turner.

Speaker 5 Again, someone who's had a very successful career, someone who's very qualified, someone who didn't bend the knee, although, you know, he spoke in favor of Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 If you watched him before, you would see that he would still say things that are favorable to Donald Trump because he had to, but generally viewed as someone who was at least competent and qualified.

Speaker 5 So a bad sign that he is gone. We'll see who replaces him.
As Melanie Zenona says, Trump was a big factor here. What we're actually hearing was Trump was the factor.

Speaker 5 People in Trump's orbit thought Turner was too close to the intelligence agencies, and others didn't like how Turner was handling a lot of issues, including the fact that Turner was pro-Ukraine pro-Ukraine and pro-NATO.

Speaker 5 Norman Ornstein says, I will reserve judgment on Mike Johnson and the Intelligence Committee until we see who he picks for its chair.

Speaker 5 But I can say now that no one is more happy by this than Vladimir Putin because Turner on the Intelligence Committee was a check against Putin. So Donald Trump doing Putin's bidding right here.

Speaker 5 Margaret Brennan reports the following. I spoke with House Intel Chair Mike Turner, who told me that Speaker Johnson fired him as chair of the committee overseeing the intelligence community.

Speaker 5 Johnson cited, quote, concerns from Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 5 as justification for firing Mike Turner from being the chair of the intelligence committee. Representative Jim Himes tells CBS that it sent a shiver down his spine, which I just read.

Speaker 5 As Andrew Desiderio writes, wild Turner is one of the biggest Ukraine supporters among Republicans on the Hill and is also very involved with NATO.

Speaker 5 Much more hawkish than Trump-aligned ours would like. Hawkish, meaning he believes that Russia should not

Speaker 5 invade a sovereign country of Ukraine, the way Donald Trump is threatening Greenland and Panama and saying he wants to annex Canada.

Speaker 5 Let me show you this from last year, where Mike Turner went on CNN and basically said that some of his House GOP colleagues had become useful idiots for Putin and Ukraine. Let's play it.

Speaker 6 Let's turn to Ukraine, an issue that's important to you and your fellow Republican chairman, Michael McCall, who runs the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Speaker 6 Congressman McCall made a comment this week about what he says sounds like Russian propaganda from some conservative media

Speaker 6 and why it's so difficult to explain to Republican voters why supporting Ukraine is important.

Speaker 6 He told Julia Yaffe, quote, I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it's infected a good chunk of my party's base.

Speaker 6 He singled out primetime shows on conservative channels. Do you agree with him? And how big is this problem?

Speaker 7 Oh, it is absolutely true.

Speaker 7 We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor.

Speaker 7 I mean, there are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not.

Speaker 7 Vladimir Putin having made it very clear, both publicly and to his own population, that his view is that this is a conflict of a much broader claim of Russia to Eastern Europe, including claiming all of Ukraine territory as Russia's.

Speaker 7 Now, to the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is.

Speaker 7 President Xi of China, Vladimir Putin himself have identified it as such. We need to stand up for democracy.

Speaker 7 We need to make certain that we know that authoritarian regimes never stop when they start in aggression.

Speaker 7 Ukraine needs our help and assistance now, and this is a very critical time for the U.S. Congress to step up and provide that aid.

Speaker 5 Now, here is Mike Turner talking about Tulsi Gabbard, that he does not think that she was someone who should be appointed to a significant cabinet position.

Speaker 5 Certainly not the director of national intelligence. But he goes on to say that he trusts the Senate process.
Watch this.

Speaker 8 Donald Trump has chosen Tulsi Gabbard, the former congresswoman, former Democrat, now Republican, to be the director of national intelligence, overseeing 18 intelligence agencies.

Speaker 8 She not only went and met with Assad, she publicly doubted high confidence assessments by U.S. intelligence that he did what we showed you pictures of him doing using chemical weapons there.

Speaker 8 Do you trust that she could actually represent the intelligence community, lead it, and be trusted to brief the commander-in-chief.

Speaker 7 Well, I obviously differ

Speaker 7 a great deal in a number of areas with both her judgment and

Speaker 7 her background and experience. But what I do trust is the

Speaker 7 Senate process. And I think the senators are going to put her through a process.
She has been nominated. She will go through the process.
And I think there'll be significant debate and evaluation.

Speaker 7 I think that Donald Trump has put together in his last term, and I think he he will in this term, a great national security team.

Speaker 7 I think CIA Director Radcliffe, I think

Speaker 7 Mike Waltz as national security director are both great examples of people who are going to be foundational. I think you're going to see a great national security team.

Speaker 8 Well, this is a community that you also have oversight of. So you may not vote in the Senate, but it sounds like she doesn't have your confidence.

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Speaker 5 And here's the thing, though, with people like Mike Turner. You'll see in this clip as well, how he tried to

Speaker 5 appease Donald Trump. He tried to hold back his criticisms.
And ultimately, that always comes back to burn you. If you don't forcefully stand for something, you'll lose everything in Trump's orbit.

Speaker 5 You can't be in the middle ground. You can't think you're going to appease the guy.

Speaker 5 Honestly, you just either you got to leave Congress if you're not going to fight the guy or stand up to him, or if you're a full-fledged cult member, you bend and kiss the ring, which is utterly despicable.

Speaker 5 And I think completely.

Speaker 5 the opposite of what our Constitution calls for for a co-equal branch of government. But here's Mike Turner.
This is April 14th of 2024. Let's play it.

Speaker 9 As you know, Donald Trump has been on the sidelines saying he doesn't want to see that aid go to Ukraine unless it's in the form of a loan.

Speaker 9 But just very quickly, do you expect it to get a vote this week, Congressman?

Speaker 12 I do, and I expect it to pass. And by the way, Donald Trump had said on the humanitarian, the other support to the Ukrainian government, on the weapons, the military support, everyone has been

Speaker 12 very much on the side of understanding that we're at a critical point. Russia Russia is beginning to gain ground.
Ukraine is beginning to lose the ability to defend itself.

Speaker 12 The United States must step up and provide Ukraine the weapons that they need. And

Speaker 12 I think we're going to see overwhelming support for that in the House this week.

Speaker 5 So again, Vladimir Putin clearly celebrating this, Donald Trump making a move directly helpful to Putin against NATO's interest.

Speaker 5 And look, I'm no Mike Turner fan, but he's at least the guy you'd want to chair that committee if you had to pick somebody.

Speaker 5 And now MAGA Mike Johnson fired him because the entire co-equal branch of government, the House of Representatives, they just would literally whatever Donald Trump says, MAGA Mike does because otherwise MAGA Mike gets removed because he doesn't stand up.

Speaker 5 So basically, none of these MAGA Republicans in the House have any power. They just do what Trump says.

Speaker 5 keeping you updated every step of the way. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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