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All Hell Breaks Loose in GOP Hearings on Live TV

2025/6/14
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Ben Meiselas: 特朗普和MAGA共和党人正在将华盛顿特区变成一片混乱,MAGA共和党人在众议院和参议院制造混乱,对民主党州长进行传唤,并对民主党议员进行人身攻击和言语侮辱。这种行为已经演变成一种法西斯主义的体现,充斥着混乱、破坏和对民主制度的蔑视。我看到MAGA共和党成员在监督委员会中对民主党议员大喊大叫,要求他们闭嘴,甚至对州长进行人身攻击,例如质问他们对女性的定义,并威胁要以谋杀罪起诉他们。这种行为不仅是对民主程序的公然践踏,也是对所有美国人民的侮辱。 James Comer: (对Frost大喊)闭嘴! Marjorie Taylor Greene: (对Hochul说)你是在对我笑吗?司法部应该起诉你犯有谋杀罪。 Nancy Mace: (质问Hochul)女人是什么?你们是暴力的一方,你们正在抹杀女性。 AOC: 共和党人只是在恐吓证人,威胁要逮捕他们。应该对他们每个人提出妨碍罪的指控。 J. B. Pritzker: 我不会接受一个赞扬希特勒的人的训诫。 Mike Turner: 你今天并没有确认五角大楼有武力入侵格陵兰的计划,对吗? Democratic Congress member Carbajal: 你是这个国家的耻辱,不适合领导。 Jasmine Crockett: 他们想把话题转移到移民问题上,因为他们觉得民调对他们有利。他们不想解决问题,因为系统中的缺陷对他们有利。 Democratic Congress member Smith: 国防部的政策是我们需要准备好必要时武力夺取格陵兰和巴拿马吗? Hegseth: 国防部的职责是为任何突发事件制定计划。 Kristi Noem: Alex Padilla从未被捕,当他表明身份后,手铐就被停止使用了。 Congresswoman Ansari: 共和党人嘲笑我们称特朗普为独裁者,所以让我们列举一下。他们试图结束美国的合法身份。共和党多数派反对美国的合法移民。

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The GOP hearings devolved into chaos, with shouting matches, accusations, and even physical altercations. Democratic governors were subjected to aggressive questioning and personal attacks. The behavior of some Republican members was described as 'fascist'.
  • Shouting matches and aggressive questioning of Democratic governors
  • Accusations of murder and threats of prosecution
  • Physical altercation involving Senator Alex Padilla
  • Witness intimidation tactics employed by Republicans

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Wow. All hell has broken loose in the house of representatives and the Senate at the same time that the FBI and the department of Homeland security serving as Donald Trump's Gestapo was beating, attacking, detaining, uh,

United States Senator Alex Padilla, we saw the MAGA Republicans in the House call a hearing with sitting Democratic governors. And then you saw members, the MAGA Republican members yelling at the

Democrats and saying, just shut up, shut up. There was screaming. There was cursing. It was going down. It is a total mess. Trump has turned all of D.C. with the MAGA Republicans leading it into absolute chaos. Watch what goes down here when MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer in the oversight committee just starts yelling at Democratic Congress member Frost. Play this clip. Shut up.

Just shut up. No, you don't. No, you're not going to tell me to shut up. Let's what? How do you get him in order? You're not like that. He's he's he has been out of order six times. He's trying to get on MSNBC. You probably not. I get it. Somebody off. He's been arrested as a former member. Right. Back to order. Miss Green. He's a former.

- Who's a former Antifa member? Me? - Yeah, you. - I ask that these words be taken down.

No, Ms. Green. Thank you. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Governor Hochul, you stated that you're a proud Democrat, proud registered Democrat. We got to suspend. There's been a parliamentary. And then you had, again, as I said, there was a hearing involving Democratic governors. You then had New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul there. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene said, are you smiling at me? Stop smiling at me. Play this clip. Five to $10 million a day to fees.

Feed and Halsey, are you smiling at me about this? You look like you got quite a smile on your face. No. Because I can tell you...

This is my time reclaiming my time. I'm thinking about don't you dare smile about the murder of her parents. The third time, the third time, Jose, my heart is breaking for my time. Governor Hochul, the third time he was arrested was in the same. Then you had Nancy Mace demanding to know of the governor's what a woman is. Do you know what a woman is? Am I a woman? She says, here, play this clip. Okay. What is a woman?

What is a woman is the question? I'm not sure I understand the question here. Well, that... What do you want me to say? This is...

I want you to say that a woman like me is an adult human female, that men can't become women. You guys are the party of violence and you're the party erasing women. You don't respect us. You're a bigot. You're a misogynist. You're a sexist. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Congresswoman. Good lady. Mr. Chairman, I would ask unanimous consent. Mr. Ocasio-Cortez from New York. All right. Well, that was some kind of bingo going on over there. I don't know what's going on. Anyways.

Oh, I know what's going on. Thank you. Then Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to yell at Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul and says the Department of Justice must prosecute you for murder. Play this clip. You are responsible for the murder of this little girl, Lakin Riley.

And the Department of Justice should prosecute you for her murder. Objection. Objection. I don't care how much you object. And if you support it, too, you're responsible for her murder. On a point of order. On a point of order. On a point of order. Mr. Chairman, these witnesses have been here for over four hours. They've all voluntarily have been engaging with our members with respect.

They've all treated our members with respect. Lake and Riley is dead forever. Forever. Forever. They can sit there all day. Hold on. Hold on. No, state your point. I'm trying to. State your point. No, no. It's a point of inquiry, not a debate. You've had your time. Our rules, if you would let me speak, our rules of decorum dictate that our witnesses should be treated with respect,

And I ask you to enforce the Coralman Remind Committee members to treat our witnesses with respect. Our...

Members, that was a common theme. The MAGA Republicans in full fascist mode were basically looking at the Democratic governors and just yelling at them and saying, you need to be prosecuted. Charges should be brought here. You have Democratic Congresswoman AOC pushing back against the MAGA Republicans and saying, like, you're just witness intimidation, like you're just threatening witnesses with arrest. Here, play this clip. And charges should be

for obstruction should be brought against each one of you for doing this. I'll leave that up to the Department of Justice. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Chair Dell recognizes Ms. Crockett from Texas. Mr. Chairman, point of order. That was intimidation of the witness.

Do you have a point of inquiry? Yes, I have a point of inquiry. Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation, is it not? Thank you. Thank you. And I withdraw the question. I appreciate it. Chair recognizes Ms. Crockett.

Then you had MAGA Republican Congress member Mike Lawler from New York almost trying to troll the Democrats by staying on their side and just like standing on their side of the House floor. And then you have a Democratic Congress member like just screaming at him, like, dude, just get the F out of here. Y'all are just a bunch of fascist menaces. Get the F out. Watch what went down on the House floor. Play this clip.

You know who I am. You know who I am. I'm a New Yorker just like you. This country's falling apart.

Then you had this moment right here where Illinois Democratic Governor Pritzker said to MAGA Republican Congressmember Mary Miller, I'm not going to be lectured by someone who, quote, extols the virtues of Hitler like you. Here, play this clip. Do you stand by your policy of tying the hands of Illinois law enforcement? Yes or no, sir?

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By getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not have plans to invade Greenland, but apparently they do have plans to invade Greenland. Play this clip. Lawyer here, I just want to help you out because people try to twist your words.

You are not confirming in your testimony today that at the Pentagon there are plans for invading or taking by force Greenland, correct? That is not your testimony today. All my testimony is, is that the Pentagon has plans for any number of contingencies. It is not your testimony today that there are plans at the Pentagon for taking by force or invading Greenland, correct? Correct.

Because I sure as hell hope that it is not your testimony. We look forward to working with Greenland to ensure that it is secured from any potential threats. Excellent. I'll get back. You have more issues where the MAGA Republicans tell Pritzker that women don't want him in their bathrooms. Play this clip. I'm asking you, have you ever considered that women don't want you in their bathrooms? No.

That that's a private space that they don't want you or any other man in. Congressman, let's talk about your failure to vote for Medicaid. In fact, you want to take Medicaid away and SNAP and veteran services. You apparently want people to die in the United States because you want to take health care away.

Sir, if we're going to think that's normal, let's talk about what you're doing to people. You think that's normal by virtue of your vote? Let's move on. And you have Democratic Congress member Carbajal to Hegseth over here saying that you're an embarrassment to the country. Play this clip. You know what? I'm not going to waste my time anymore. You're not worthy of my attention or my questions.

You're an embarrassment to this country. You're unfit to lead. And there's been bipartisan members of Congress that have called for your resignation. You should just get the hell out.

And let somebody competently lead this department. Here we have Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's play it. I know that there's been some conversations about what's going on in L.A. And they want to say that it's riots because they didn't want people to keep talking about, say, the Epstein files or whatever other drama was popping off.

between the president and his little friend. So they wanted to change the conversation to immigration because they feel like, well, the polling is in our benefit. But let me tell you something. If they cared about making sure we were going to be fiscally responsible, they would tell the American people that it cost them $134 million.

to send the National Guard to L.A. for the quote unquote riots that the governor didn't ask for, nor did the mayor of L.A. ask for. And they sent them over there and they say that they care about our service members, yet they sent them and they were laying on the floor. They did not provide for food. So I don't know why we would believe that number one, they want to fix this. They don't want to fix it.

because the brokenness is a feature, not a flaw of the system because it is beneficial to them when it comes to campaigning. If they can't stoke fear, then why are they going to

say, have anybody vote for them because that's what people are doing. They're voting out of fear. Then we have Democratic Congress member Smith to Hegseth play this clip. Yeah, and I'm sincerely concerned about this. Is it the policy of the Department of Defense that we need to be prepared to take Greenland and Panama by force if necessary? Is this a policy that you have within the Department of Defense in accordance with the president's wishes?

I heard what you said about those two countries and saying we need to worry about China.

Well, we are worried about China. That wasn't my concern. China's malign influence in Panama. I was concerned with us saying that using military force to take another sovereign country's territory. We should pay attention to that. Right. So Panama is very key terrain that we've focused on and we've been willing to focus on, as is Greenland's key terrain. We should take it by military force. They're important. I'm not going to argue with that. The Arctic is incredibly important. I'm arguing with using our military to take it by force. Our job at the DOD is to have plans. Do you have a plan for that?

Our job at the Defense Department is to have plans for any particular contingency. Including the contingency of basically invading Denmark. Any contingency you need, we've got it. We've got a building full of planners, and we're prepared to give recommendations whenever needed. Just be clear. You have plans to take Panama and Greenland by force if necessary. I think the American people would want the Pentagon to have plans for any particular contingency. Not for that. Thankfully, we are in the planning business. Speaking on behalf of the American people.

I don't think the American people voted for President Trump because they were hoping we would invade Greenland. I'm going to go out and live on that one. I yield back. Governor Tim Walz from Minnesota was in attendance. Here was AOC's questioning with him. Play this clip. I have to say, I know you're getting a lot of grief from the majority here, but, you know, this we are talking about individuals who have cheered on in the

Individual who issued a Nazi salute from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America.

who have cheered on the pardoning of individuals who attacked the United States Capitol and flew a Nazi flag and the flag of the Confederacy, traitors to the United States, sworn enemies of the United States of America through the capital of this nation. And now they want to act offended because someone,

has the courage to say, if it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, maybe it's a duck. So I want to thank you for not wavering to their bullying, which is unconscionable

And sad to see. So I just wanted to let you know that, Governor. Thank you. Thank you, Congresswoman. More of Pritzker and MAGA Republican Perry play this clip. Just can you cite which laws he's which law in this regard he's broken? Well, there have been congressionally approved appropriations that this president has cut off and we've had to go to court. That's illegal.

We've had to go to court to have it reinstated. It's illegal. It is illegal. If you have to go to court, it's illegal, and it's still working its way through the courts, right? Yes, but things have been ruled on already. It's not illegal yet. It's your opinion. But regarding – When a judge rules on it, that's the law. It's the law at that moment until the next judge rules on it. Okay? Okay.

Right, because you understand the courts. If another judge. And you're the attorney here, I'm not. But you're not saying he broke the law regarding the riots in Los Angeles right now. Or are you saying that?

That hasn't been ruled upon yet. So but are you saying the answer is I believe that he did, but that is not what I'm referring to. OK, you're not referring. And again, while all of this was going down, you had Democratic California Senator Alex Padilla getting tackled and thrown to the floor by the Trump Gestapo. Play this clip. Sir, sir, hands up, hands up.

I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have a question for the Secretary, because the fact of the matter is, a half a dozen violent criminals that you're rotating on your heads off. On the ground. On the ground. On your back.

Hands on your back. - My hand's going, I didn't have my back. - All right, all right, all right. - Cool. - My hand, lay flat, lay flat. - Other hand, sir. - Other hand. - There's no recording allowed out here. - All right, I do not know. - There's no recording allowed out here per up guy, right? - For what, I'm sorry? - There's no recording allowed out here. - That's my boss, I have to report it. - There's no recording allowed out here. - People report there's no recording allowed out here.

I'm not a member of Congress. There's no recording, I don't understand that so well. You have Democratic Congresswoman Ansari, here's what she says. Mr. Perry just mocked us for referring to Donald Trump as a dictator, so let's run through the list.

Sounds like a dictator.

Kidnapped people off of the streets and deported them to foreign prisons without due process. Sounds like a dictator. Defunded higher education. Dictator. Threatened law firms and the legal profession. Dictator.

This weekend, he is spending tens of millions of dollars to host a massive military parade for his birthday. Is this North Korea? On top of all of that, our twice impeached president with a 34 count convicted death

felony president who is not a king has deployed the active duty military in American cities and he has spent $134 million to do so. He has their guns trained on American citizens without the consent of local authorities or the state's governor to purposefully generate chaos and provoke a reaction.

Meanwhile, we have Republicans on this side of the aisle asking governors of states about bathrooms. Like this is the most dystopian, horrific episode of Black Mirror that I have ever seen.

Here's another clip of AOC. I just have 10 seconds left. But when they say illegal versus legal immigration, they are trying to end legal status in the United States as well. Correct, Governor Pritzker, with the end of TPS and making people undocumented by removing legal status, ending legal status, and then having the audacity to call them illegal immigrants.

when they were here documented, correct? - Taking students visas away from people, taking their legal right to be in the United States away from them when they've been granted maybe years earlier to stay. - So I don't wanna hear about how this is about illegal versus legal immigration. They are attacking legal status and removing legal status. The Republican majority is anti-legal immigration in the United States. I wanna make that very clear and I yield back.

Another clip of Democratic Congresswoman Ansari. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to finish the title of the article that I was trying to read into unanimous consent. Okay. Stunning. Senator Alex Padilla, California, was just forcefully removed from the news conference being held by DHS Kristi Noem in Westwood. Senator attempted to interrupt Noem. That's the title. He was handcuffed in the hallway. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, for the record, he rushed the podium. He was being disruptive.

And that is not conducive to a senator. Thank you, Mr. Brown and arrest. Order chair. Mr. Mann from California. And then over here you have Kristi Noem saying that Alex Padilla was not actually detained and he was not cuffed as soon as he identified himself, which is false. Play this clip.

Secretary. Well, he was never arrested. He was never arrested. And he nobody knew who he was when he came into the room creating a scene. He was removed from the room. And yes, they started to put handcuffs on him when he finally identified himself. And then that was stopped. And we then I they said he wants to talk to you. Sure. I'd love to sit down and visit. So that's what's happening on Capitol Hill right now.

It's a mess. It is a Trump mess and madness. And let's be clear, it's not a both sides thing. It's these MAGAs who are not normal Republicans, although the Republicans have now become all MAGA. Chaos.

Destruction, fascism. It's all right there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.