FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING

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Speaker 2 All right, folks, it's gloves off for these Democrats.

Speaker 2 I appreciate these House Democrats going on the offense against the MAGA Republicans, leading the charge, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 2 Watch her call out Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican, then MAGA Republican. Nancy Mace says that she wants to fight Jasmine Crockett and says, let's take it outside here.
Watch this.

Speaker 4 Somebody's campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So she's going to keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people will feel threatened.
And child, listen,

Speaker 8 I want y'all to be a child.

Speaker 9 I have no child.

Speaker 9 Do not call me a child.

Speaker 8 I have no child. I want to be a child.
Don't even start out. I'm a grown up.

Speaker 4 Which of those females

Speaker 9 have ceilings and women?

Speaker 8 I'm reclaiming my time.

Speaker 8 you want to take it outside mr chairman and committee is not done okay

Speaker 2 order order point of order point of order order order order order jasmine crockett is not done congresswoman crockett says that you're here trying to somehow make an argument about transgender people.

Speaker 2 What are you even doing, MAGA? Here, watch this.

Speaker 4 Let me tell you something.

Speaker 4 Y'all need to find some people that actually care about their constituents.

Speaker 4 And honestly, whenever y'all are ready to work, we on this side of the aisle have always been ready to do what is right by the American people.

Speaker 4 Instead, what you continue to do is go after the most vulnerable. in our country.

Speaker 4 The fact that you just sat up there and somehow figured out how to tie trans folk to your argument makes no sense to me. But let me tell you something.
Trans people ain't going nowhere.

Speaker 2 Just like when the racists wanted to make sure that black people somehow were going to be dismissed in this country we ain't left either and i'll yield would you yield back i'll yield more from democratic congresswoman jasmine crockett and here she is talking about how maga republicans are creating their doge subcommittee instead of a subcommittee on civil rights and actually doing things for the american people and then she mocks marjorie taylor green watch this so glad that we could finally um end that nice little propaganda commercial break.

Speaker 4 Listen, I don't know what Ms. Mace was talking about.
I thought we were talking about government efficiency. And the last time that I checked,

Speaker 4 last time that I checked, this committee in the 118th, just like in the 119th, has been governed by the Republicans. Chairman, is it not true that you were the chairman in the 118th?

Speaker 4 You were. Okay, so the Republicans have controlled this committee.

Speaker 4 So my question is, why is it that you need to create an entirely new subcommittee when you literally could go through and do whatever work it is that you're talking about handing over to the gentle lady who has never seemingly brought up anything about efficiency?

Speaker 4 The only thing I recall from the 118th was her spending a lot of time on somebody's junk in this committee. So let me be clear.
Y'all had a chance. You chose not to use it.

Speaker 4 So why should the American people be convinced that now all of a sudden, because you create a new committee that has been promulgated by a real oligarch, you're talking about Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 4 They were actually duly elected, not somebody sitting there buying Twitter and just happened to be the most, the richest person in the world telling y'all what to do.

Speaker 2 Here's Democratic Congressmember Garcia, California, right here in the Long Beach area.

Speaker 2 Here he says, I don't think we should be listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene on fire safety. I mean, she's the Jewish space laser woman.

Speaker 10 Play the clip.

Speaker 8 That was a lot.

Speaker 11 And first, I think the people of California and the West absolutely deserve an apology for politicizing fires that are actually killing people right now and where people are losing their homes.

Speaker 11 And the idea that somehow you want to politicize those and say that those were caused by crazy conspiracy theories.

Speaker 11 I don't think anyone anyone should take any advice on how fires are created, certainly by someone that has said space lasers actually create forest fires.

Speaker 11 And so

Speaker 11 that deserves an apology to the people of California.

Speaker 2 Okay, speaking of the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist who grabs cardboard cutout crotches of Donald Trump and attacks victims of school shootings who survived, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Speaker 2 By the way, we sued Marjorie Taylor Green and she settled with us cut us a check I think for about $10,000 and then we took that check and donated it to groups that focus on responsible gun ownership just a nice little way to troll her back you know that story right it's a funny it's a funny story anyway I digress here's MAGA Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green saying

Speaker 2 You don't like Elon because you're jealous of him. Here, watch this.

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 12 let's be really clear in what you're trying to do. You're attacking Elon Musk because you're really jealous.
You are. You're just really jealous.

Speaker 2 Okay, Marjorie, here's Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming the Los Angeles fires on no water in the fire hydrants and not cleaning up the forest floors.

Speaker 2 There's not a conspiracy theory that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not willing to spread. That's just what she does.
Play this clip.

Speaker 12 No, it's not climate change that is burning down California. It is a failure of how to handle and prevent these types of problems.
No water in the fire hydrants. No water in the water reservoirs.

Speaker 12 Not cleaning up the forest floors.

Speaker 2 You go from Marjorie Taylor Green to Marjorie Taylor Green 2.0, Nancy Mace. Here's MAGA Republican Nancy Mace.
Here she is

Speaker 2 again talking about the only thing that seems to be on her mind. This is how she gets attention to go on Fox when she tries to bully transgender people.
Let's play it.

Speaker 3 Because it's time that we stop wasting American taxpayers. It is time that we stopped.
We stopped wasting time up here on the Hill. We stopped wasting time here in Congress talking about BS.

Speaker 3 And someone brought up dignity earlier. I would love to see dignity and respect for women.

Speaker 3 up here on the hill, which is why we should ban men from women's spaces, which is why we should ban men from the locker rooms, from women's locker rooms, which is why we should ban men from women's just dressing rooms.

Speaker 3 I'm done with this. We've got to get back to common sense.
We've got to get back to fighting and working hard for the American people, and we've got to do it together. So

Speaker 3 you guys can talk all you want on the left side of the aisle. You're not going to be successful because there was a mandate.

Speaker 2 By the way, you may know this about me. I'm a professor at USC.
One of the courses I teach is a course called sports law. So one of of the things I often teach my students,

Speaker 2 though, you know, this whole attack on transgender people in sports, do you know how many transgender athletes there are in the NCAA? Under 10.

Speaker 2 And in some states where they spend millions of dollars to try to keep transgender athletes out, sometimes there's one transgender athlete in the state. But this is all MAGA talks about.

Speaker 2 Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene right here

Speaker 2 talking about bathrooms and peepee and vagina whatever it's just this just

Speaker 2 what these these people

Speaker 12 they want to distract you with this stuff here play this clip and keep your biological men who are mentally insane and have sexually perversive ideas thoughts and fantasies out of our bathrooms out of our sports out of our women's spaces and if you want to continue to be the party that stands up for for that absolute insane bullshit, we'll keep beating you election after election after election.

Speaker 12 You want to know why? Because y'all are for they, them, and we're for the American people. And we actually do stand up for people's rights.
We stand up for the unborn.

Speaker 12 We stand up for women and children and we will protect them from the deranged lunatics that you all call women. Mr.
Chairman, I yield back.

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Speaker 2 And you know one of the things I've been saying? WMD, weapon of mass distraction. they don't want to govern.

Speaker 2 They can't deliver the things that they claim they're going to. They can't even come close to it.
So they want to divide Americans against Americans.

Speaker 2 They want to get the factory workers and the 99% who are getting screwed over by the actual MAGA policies, which go to help the billionaires and the DECA millionaires.

Speaker 2 And they want to convince the factory worker, the union worker, the blue-collar worker.

Speaker 2 It's not the workers. I mean, just people who are just working hard, multiple jobs.

Speaker 2 They're trying to convince them that they should be more pissed off about some transgender athlete from San Jose State on the volleyball team than against their own interest and their own family's interest.

Speaker 2 It's ridiculous. Here, MAGA Republican Representative

Speaker 2 Derek Van Orden says we're very close to World War II. Here, play this clue.

Speaker 5 Because we got somebody now in the Pentagon who's going to follow Donald Trump's lead and make sure that we have peace in the world again.

Speaker 5 We are closer to World War II than we have been in my entire lifetime. It is now time to project peace together, peace through strength.

Speaker 5 And Pete Hegseth is going to bring that home and bring America across the line. We're going to protect our citizens and our allies for the first time in the last four years.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 5 We're thrilled. There's a bunch of Navy.

Speaker 2 What do you mean, Van Orden? First off, okay, World War II happened a while ago, the 40s,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 a little bit before then. But second off,

Speaker 2 I thought that your whole thesis was that Trump was going to get elected and then the world would obey and then things would be

Speaker 2 all of a sudden great right away on day one. But now Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, says there's not going to be a peace deal in Ukraine for at least 100 days.

Speaker 2 That's what Keith Kellogg's saying.

Speaker 2 Also, Donald Trump apparently wants to be the bad guy in World War III, threatening to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland, Mexico, whatever country comes to his mind. But I digress.

Speaker 2 Here's Democratic Congresswoman A.O.C.

Speaker 2 talking about

Speaker 2 while the fires are burning, the number one priority of MAGA is to prevent 10 transgender athletes from playing in sports. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 Because Los Angeles is on fire right now.

Speaker 4 And this is the number one priority that this majority has.

Speaker 1 Thank you, and I yield back.

Speaker 2 I thought this was an interesting moment where MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer, who is the head of the oversight committee, he refuses to strike Nancy Mace's words when she threatened Jasmine Crockett because James Comer says that take when Nancy Mace was threatening Jasmine Crockett and saying, let's take it outside.

Speaker 2 Comer's like, but it could have been, it could have been take it outside for a cup of coffee. Play the clip.

Speaker 8 What the gentlelady said was, we can take this outside if you want.

Speaker 8 That could mean you could go outside and have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer.

Speaker 8 You know, I mean, we have

Speaker 8 lots of conversations outside.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 I'm going to rule that

Speaker 8 it was, you know, just a.

Speaker 8 That it's okay. That it's okay.
All right. And then, point of inquiry.

Speaker 10 And remember, this is a slippery slope you're going down because we have

Speaker 8 a city, as you know.

Speaker 11 So just to be clear, in this committee, we can ask,

Speaker 8 threaten violence on someone as long as

Speaker 9 I did not threaten violence.

Speaker 9 I threatened no violence.

Speaker 9 I threatened no violence. There was no violence.

Speaker 8 As long as at the end.

Speaker 9 I threatened no violence.

Speaker 9 None. You're making shit up as you go along.

Speaker 8 You might want to figure this one out.

Speaker 8 Mr. Chairman.

Speaker 8 No violence.

Speaker 2 Mr. Chairman.

Speaker 8 No violence. I'm going to appeal the ruling of the chair.

Speaker 2 And finally, we have Congressmember, Democratic Congressmember Garamendi, who calls out MAGA Republicans for trying to impose conditions on aid to California.

Speaker 2 One of the things that MAGA Republicans are demanding is that there be an increase of the debt ceiling or an elimination of the debt ceiling in order for California to get aid.

Speaker 2 You're tying together the debt ceiling and aid to California in a disaster? Watch what Congressmember Garamendi has to say.

Speaker 10 And modify my remarks.

Speaker 1 Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

Speaker 8 Thank you.

Speaker 10 Madam Speaker,

Speaker 10 there's a great tragedy occurring in California as we speak.

Speaker 10 Members of the California delegation have spoken on the floor about the extraordinary damage, the loss of life, and the lives that have been disrupted. I was shocked

Speaker 10 to watch on television the elected leader of this House suggesting that federal assistance to deal with that tragedy would be conditioned.

Speaker 10 Didn't specify on what, but I would remind that gentleman that $120 billion has gone to Louisiana over the last 20 years dealing with the tragedies, Katrina, New Orleans, and the like, and that's not the total count.

Speaker 10 It would be unconscionable for this House to place any condition on the necessary assistance that Americans should give

Speaker 10 to our American

Speaker 10 people in Los Angeles.

Speaker 10 I would ask us to search our conscience and for the leader, elected leader of this house, to do so also and put aside those requirements.

Speaker 8 I yield back.

Speaker 2 Gentlemen, so go on the offense, Dems. Go on the offense, be loud about these.
The American people are with you on these issues, but you're seeing the deluge of propaganda and lies from MAGA.

Speaker 2 And you got to be able to rebut them. It's a fire hose

Speaker 2 of lies

Speaker 2 over and over and over and over again. That's all they've got.

Speaker 2 You got to combat it.

Speaker 2 You got to be ready to debunk it right away.

Speaker 14 But

Speaker 2 you also have to go on the offense.

Speaker 2 And going on the offense doesn't mean responding always.

Speaker 2 It means saying that the MAGA Republicans support the oligarch billionaires who are stealing your jobs, who are giving your jobs to others, who are

Speaker 2 taking away your money and enriching themselves.

Speaker 2 You have to go on the offense too here. Can't always be defense.

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