In a blistering congressional hearing, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett dismantled the GOP’s fear tactics, called out their silence on white supremacy, and demanded answers for the $221 million spent on a propaganda ICE operation no one asked for.
🔥 “This is a show for a reality TV president.”
🔥 “Not immigrants — it’s y’all making people unsafe.”
🔥 $221 million wasted on fear, not safety
🔥 ICE raids, Marines in the streets, and silence on real threats
This is what accountability sounds like.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Repulse Stays got a heena in the House Oversight Reform Committee,
and Consulman Jasmine Crockett was in the thick of it,
holding republic is accountable when it comes to the millions
being spent on immigration in this country and how they
are wasting tax payer money of what she called political theater.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And thank you so.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Much to our governors. And I want to say I apologize.
I apologize for the abuse that you are facing in
this committee that is supposed to be about waste, fraud
and abuse. And I also apologize for wasting your time
because this is nothing more than political theater. Now again,
this committee is supposed to be about waste, fraud and abuse.
We did not have to have this full creation of
(00:45):
dose the committee itself.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That is our job.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So what I want to talk about is what something
that the American people may want to know, which is economically,
how is this impacting them? These failed immigration policies that
are only put on so that they can have a show,
because we have a reality show president who seemingly still
believes that this is all about TV instead of real lives.
So let me talk about something really quickly because I
(01:12):
want to clarify something because I believe that all of
you understand the importance of something like tourism.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are you aware, any of you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Are you aware as to whether or not tourism in
the United States is anticipated to decrease to the extent
that we are estimated to lose twelve point five billion
dollars in international vendor spending in just the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I can answer, as the tourism capital of the country.
Oh good, tourism is already down. It is down in
the North Country where the Canadians refuse to come over
because of the hostility toward their country. It's happening in
New York City. It's happening our sporting venture, our theater.
There is a ripple effects throughout our entire economy because
of a change in attitude that our country that once
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welcome people all over the world to visit and recreate
and to live here, now it feels like a very
hostile place to them. It is going to have an
economic impact on our bottom line without it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So let's talk about it a little bit more so.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I am supposed to have a number of FIFA games
in Dallas, and I am fully anticipating that we are
going to have a problem because I've been receiving phone
calls that people don't feel safe coming here, and it's
not the immigrants, it's this government that is making them
feel unsafe.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But let me also do this, because they love to
cherry pick.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
They can't find, you know, any one person that has
been killed, and if they've been killed by an immigrant,
then god darn it, every single immigrant is going out
and they are killers, and that is the problem. But
they don't want to talk about white supremacy. I don't
know how many hearings we don't have about the fact
that there's been this one immigrant that killed this one person.
And no, I'm not excusing any killings by them or
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white supremacists, but they haven't had these hearings.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We didn't have a.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hearing on Buffalo and what happened there. We didn't have
a hearing on El Paso and what happened there. We
didn't have a hearing on Charles and what happened there.
So it's interesting that they pick and shoose because it
seems like they love to palle around with the white
supremacists and so they don't want to.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Talk about certain other things. But economically.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I want to make sure that we're making this point
again because I know that Governor Pritsker, you were the
beneficiary of a lot of things from the state of Texas,
and a lot of people believe that Republicans are fiscally responsible,
but instead they are actually fiscally irresponsible. Because what he
spent was a whopping two hundred and twenty one million
(03:30):
dollars transporting people from Texas to your state. Something tells
me that he could have done something else with that
two hundred and twenty one million dollars. In addition to that,
I know that there's been some conversations about what's going
on in LA 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
(03:52):
off between the President and his little friend.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So they wanted to change.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
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 fishly responsible, they would tell the American people that
it cost them one hundred and thirty four million dollars
to send the National Guard to La for the quote
unquote riots that the governor didn't ask for, nor did
(04:18):
the mayor of LA 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
this because the brokenness is a feature, not a flaw,
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of the system, because it is beneficial to them when.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It comes to campaigning.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
If they can't stoke fear, then why are they going
to say, have anybody vote for them?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Because that's what people are doing. They're voting not a fear.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But Miss Perryman, we know each other a little will
and I know you got a law agree, and it
seems like we all know a lot degrees in here
nowadays to understand the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So really, briefly, I just want to make this point.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
There is a certain person that was afforded, say due process.
But let's say, if say Donald Trump had been charged
with all of these cases that he got charged with
and for different jurisdictions, if he wasn't afforded due process,
there could have been a possibility that he just would
have been locked up and thrown somewhere, right, that would
be a possibility, and then maybe we wouldn't have a
(05:26):
tariff or anything else that we're dealing with, or all
the other nonsense.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But the point is he was afforded due process.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And regardless of the political opposition Democrats, Republicans, and independence,
I thought believe that due process should be afforded to everybody,
even him.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Due processes for everyone.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, So the Fifth Amendment doesn't say that it's just
for the people that are Americans.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
It does not.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It says anybody on our soils, for everyone. Okay, it's
pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't know why we are having issues, but I
think you and I will.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yield well, folks.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Pennsylvania CON's Women in Summer League she got in on
the action as well, and she didn't hold her talk.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Proba's funny, the lack of decorum that we get people drop.
We do drop. The gentlemen act here oftentimes when attacking
women who aren't able to defend themselves with equal time.
But that's kind of the theme here, right, Attacking Americans
are people who are not able to defend themselves, or
at least who Republicans hope can't defend themselves. And that's
what we're seeing essentially in Los Angeles. So I would
(06:31):
say that this hearing is quite timely. What's happening with
ICE in the military and Los Angeles is terrifying, and
it's directly caused by Trump's policies, and it's cruelty. It
was Trump's over zailous ICE agents who started this specific incident,
and now they want us to get bobbed out and
arguing over the right types of protests or the right
types of way, or the right way to defend yourself,
(06:54):
the mythical perfect type, so that we could ignore that
Trump is the one who is escalating all of this.
Trump is the one who ordered in thousands of National
guardsmen over the objection of Governor Newsom, something that hasn't
been done since nineteen sixty five. Trump is the one
deploying marines not on an enemy abroad, but on the
American people who are exercising their First Amendment right in
(07:18):
this instance, the only opportunity that they have to defend
themselves against lawless lawmakers who are imposing cruelty upon them
for party of so called law and order folks. They
shore stampeding over people's constitutional rights and intentionally inciting more
chaos or fear, more anxiety, and increasing the likelihood that
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people will get hurt in the end. What's happening in
Los Angeles is just one of many incidents where Trump
and his administration have not given a single damn about
people's safety. For one, the ICE in DHS agents that
are arresting people in raiding places often don't even have
any kind of uniform or identifying badge. They're masked and
they're unmarked cars. Miss Perriman, just briefly, why is it
(08:03):
so dangerous to have mass plane, closed ICE agents arresting people?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
So I'll just thank you, congress Woman for your question.
I'll go back to what I said before that we
know our constitution recognizes and our country recognizes the importance
of trust between local law enforcement, the federal government, and governors.
And what we're seeing here is a breach of trust.
It's an escalation, and it's dangerous for the American people.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Trump said he was only going to go after undocumented criminals,
but that's clearly not the case, whether through incompetence or
straight up racial profiling ice and DHS agents are wrongfully
arresting US citizens. We've talked about it today there and
catching these mistakes often happens too late, after an American
citizen has already been illegally thrown into another country and
(08:55):
Trump's administration is doing nothing to get them back. These
agents are also going into previously protect it spaces as
we've discussed, like churches and schools and hospitals. DHS agents
try to get into an elementary school by lying that
they had the permission from the parents. That is a
cartoonish level of evil. I also arrested a Massachusetts high
(09:15):
school senior, Marcelo go Maza Silva, on his way to
volleyball practice.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Governor Walls, you're a former teacher and coach.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Do you think these kinds of actions create instability for
students and do you worry about increasing anxiety of kids
coming to school?
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Well, thank you, Congressman. I certainly do creating that safe
environment where our kids can come and the expectation is
to learn, they certainly do. Once again, there's no reason
to use these enforcement actions at those locations when there
are other tools, and I think again there's false equivalency
that We do not want violent criminals to be to
(09:54):
be arrested, detained and go through due process. We do,
but hugely detrimental to educationational system. Hugely detrimental to a
system that is dependent on trust and the good will
of everyone in that school system.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
So yeah, it is detrimental, thank you, Governor Wallase.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
He's saying, kids getting a wrestler, often being separated from
their families. They're scared, they're alone. An attorney is one
of the few resources they had access to that is
now being taken away. As well, the Trump administrations canceled
contracts with legal groups that represent those undocumented children in
immigration court. This is going to force thousands of kids
as young as two years old to represent themselves so
very quickly as we're running out of time, experimid, how's
(10:32):
a two year old supposed to represent themselves in court?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Two year old can't represent it self and court him
or her self in court. And I'll just say that
we are in court every single day seeking to try
to ensure that people have access to legal representation, which,
of course this administration is really seeking to curtail. They're
seeking to ignore due process rights.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I was going to say, would you say that it
is due process. If a two year old is left
to represent themselves.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Absolutely, it's a flagrant violation of our constitution. It's also
something that shocks the conscience.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll leave it.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
There, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I yo back, so B.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
One of the reasons why we like to show the
full five minutes of House members and some of these
Senate hearings, it's because a lot of folks never actually
see or hear Black Caucus members in action. People often
talk about, well, what are they doing. I don't see
them standing up, I don't see them fighting, But these
(11:31):
things happen. We know the Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is trying
to become the next ranking member that is the leading
Democrat on this House Overside committee. And so people need
to understand that when we talk about the House and
the Senate, the rules are different, the power is different,
and the reality is you use these hearings to be
(11:52):
able to put these facts out there so people are
aware of actually what's going on.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
In this country.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Definitely think you can hear it in both of those
young ladies, the way they were able to just talk
about how harmful this is, how wasteful this is, even
in me working with death kids.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
This summer, trying to teach employment skills. Their parents are worried.
These ice rays are creating a place where we can
give our students the teams they need so they can
be successful in the future.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And because they're.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Worried about ice raids and how that's going to impact
their family, you're hearing people say, you know it's not impacting,
so why are we worried about it? When you see
kids and them writing letters and I may not have
access to my previous or I may have to go
back to Mexico or wherever they came from. This is
(12:47):
just so disheartening to have our leaders being on the
front line, running after positions that put them in over
psych commedies that will stop some of these things. We
are not powerless. We have to get out, we have
to be active. We have to unify, and we have
to fight for the things that are super important for
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our kids, for our future, and for a country that
has always been built on so many diverse individuals and
diverse groups. Being in this country listening to their just
listening and what she was saying, it's so important that
we identify that we had to stand up We can't
(13:30):
just be sitting back tulling our thumbs while they're running
our communities, deshoring our communities, and agitating protests that are peaceful.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know, Recie, there are a lot of people here
as some African Americans. Man, this stuff don't involve us.
This ain't you know, we ain't got nothing to do
with this year. Folk had better wake to hell up.
I've read this the last two days, and I know
I couldn't wait to read this for you and Greg
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and that is Christopher Ruffo had posted this on his
substack earlier this week, where he said that at the
same time as we saw demonstrated in Portland, Oregon during
the George Floyd riots, the agency should dispatch unmarked vans
to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets
(14:24):
while the media are not looking. The most effective riot
control is to take movement leaders off the field, infiltrate
their networks, disrupt the flow of funding, and roll them
up and fell investigations. Denying the left trained protest leaders
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now will create a strong precedent for the rest of
the president's term. If these folks don't think that they
will do this to black activists. They are out of
their minds.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
They've been doing it to since you think of the
Black Panther Party and seeking all of these other organizations
that were infiltrated, they've been doing this. This this is
their game plan.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
They've always had it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So we can't be no, no, no, I'm sorry, wellc rec go.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Yeah, you know what, it's passed the time of hypothesizing
about what they plan to do. They are already doing it.
These are the people that felt like they didn't go
far enough in squashing the Black Lives Matter protests, so
they are chomping at the bit itching to get black people.
Be very clear about that, and I know that there
(15:43):
is some sentiment amongst some people not all that this
is about protesting, and well, black people don't get out
there and protests because that's what they're going to use
as an excuse to wrap you up. Oh no, no, no,
no no, you don't have to be protesting. You could
just be walking home. There was a lady Yestera. It
(16:04):
was a white lady I saw two days ago who
was trying to go to her apartment building who was
attacked by the police. So as long as these that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was a black woman that was a black woman from
I'm sorry, that was a woman from Chili who was
on vacation with her child, and they snatched her in
New York City and left her daughter there shredded and
held that woman for eight hours.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And hell, she was just here on vacation.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And we've seen even in.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
It's really racial profiling, but we've seen were American citizens,
military officers who are just playing clothes at the time,
who are detained. The reality is you don't want to
not just end up in South Sadana Djibouti, but you
don't want to be in the crosshairs of beast people
at all. And so the presence of forty eight hundred
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military personnel under the thumb of Donald Trump in any
city is a problem. Greg Abbey is I believe I
read going to only five thousand National Guards. But what
people are going to be trying to go to June
teenth barbecues and shit, do some line dances, and yet
he's going to be sitting all of these military people.
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So even if you're not going protest going to the barbecue,
you go into the presence of these forces.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
For black people, like.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Black theory, they don't need an actual reason. Your existence
is reason enough for them. And so that's why we're
trying to warn people to stay woke, stay prepared, and
stay vigilant. If you don't want to get out there
and hold protest lines to be on the front lines, okay,
but you still need to keep your head on the swivel.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Greg, These black folks better recognize this ain't just about
this ain't about latinos, This ain't about my No. These
Terse's point, they are pissed off with what happened with
Black Lives Matter. They're pissed off that it was able
to become the first black protests in American history where
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a majority of American citizens supported.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
And that's why they attack.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's why the right wing media attacked Black Lives Matter
with everything they had in twenty twenty one. They attack
critical race theory of twenty twenty two, they attack woke
in twenty twenty three, they attack DEI in twenty twenty four.
They are absolutely angry with what I call the Third
Reconstruction and they said, oh no, we are going to
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destroy this.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ain't black folks, You negroes ain't having no footprint ever again.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's their dream. It's a it's a dying dream.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
This is their death rattle, and like many trapped animals,
they are the most dangerous when they are facing their end.
The strongest and only consistent diversity, equity and inclusion grouping
in the history of the United States of America's whiteness.
The DEI intellectual Christopher Ruffo, who if he were a
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black man would not be writing or talking about anything,
But because he is a white man and a white nationalist,
he's promoted and platformed to talk about.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Things he doesn't understand. Is giving voice to their fantasy.
Speaker 12 (19:33):
It's a dying fantasy, but in its death knail, in
its death rattle, it is perhaps it's most dangerous. I
spent yesterday in New York at the Schomberg Center testifying
before the New York State Reparations Commission. Was there last
year when Governor Hokle, who we saw testifying today there
(19:54):
in Congress, signed the billing of legislation creating the study
Commission in New York, And as I anticipated, I wrote
my remarks fully anticipating that I would be shouted at
from the audience from the descendants of slaves crowd which
they did. I kind of smiled this recorded us out
there in New York State website, and you'll see me
(20:16):
kind of chuckle and say, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
For all the smoke, all the baby smoke. But I
bring it up for this reason.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Afterwards, I had a long conversation standing outside of the
Schomberg one hundred thirty fifth and in Malcolm X with
many of these folks, these freedmen, these aight hours folk,
who I embraced because I understand the pain that they're
speaking from. But as we had the conversation, which was
very amicable, and you know, because we're talking with the
spirit of generosity, we all want the same thing. But
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what melted away from them was any logic connected with
this blackface nativism. The idea in New York City, of
all places, that you could somehow separate yourself from the
multi ethnic, multicultural polyglot that is New York City and
stand on the other side opposite people who are in
harms way exactly like you, and who, to your point,
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are in harm's way exactly like them, is absurd on
its face, and their arguments melted away.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I set all that as a backdrop to this.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
That House Oversight Committee which is run by another DEI politician,
James Calmer, who if he were a black man, would
be excoriated widely for being as stupid as he is.
And of course the congress woman from WrestleMania, Macho man
savage from Georgia, I mean Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia,
another DEI politician, if she were a black woman, would
(21:42):
be widely excoriated. When we saw Summer Lee and Jasmine
Crockett do what they are going to do increasingly, and
Maxwell Frost on that committee which is assumed leadership in
a democratic party, who is still nursing the fantasy that
you can make peace with these white nationalist which means
they are soft white nationals.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
It's coming down to this.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
We will embrace the politics of solidarity, regardless that people
want to throw up with this person, don't like this
person or this group said this about this. You know
what later for that, Because these people are in the
streets trying to act as if they can sustain this bullying.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
They're bullies.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
You know what you do with a bully, You put
them dead ass in the mouth and politically organizing in
the courts and they will fold like the.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Cheap DEI suits. They are.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
But at this moment, this is not the moment to
talk about my friend, my colleague.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
This is not the moment to turn your back on
other people.
Speaker 12 (22:34):
Because they are sending these punk ass jack booty thugs
like them, three undersized boys that tried to tackle Alex
Padia and expecting us to respond with or I know,
Sanity is going to be a showdown, friends, Roland, and
I'm reaching everybody. I mean, I'm saying this is more
of all of us. It's not gonna be nice Sunday afternoon,
(22:59):
downtown Washington, DC, on the mall, and we may be
talking about a very different conversation on on on Saturday
night and Sunday and then when you come back with
the show on Monday than we are having right now,
because they understand one thing if they don't understand anything else.
We live in a society where people are not paying attention.
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It's a mean culture. They're not studying, and so when
you show lead, when you show Jasmine Crockett testifying, you
have to the reason you do that so much is
because people are not paying attention, and they will tell
you straight to your face that they're not doing what
they are doing.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It's the time for us to be serious. Now.
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Repulse Stays got a heena in the House Oversight Reform Committee,
and Consulman Jasmine Crockett was in the thick of it,
holding republic is accountable when it comes to the millions
being spent on immigration in this country and how they
are wasting tax payer money of what she called political theater.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And thank you so.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Much to our governors. And I want to say I apologize.
I apologize for the abuse that you are facing in
this committee that is supposed to be about waste, fraud
and abuse. And I also apologize for wasting your time
because this is nothing more than political theater. Now again,
this committee is supposed to be about waste, fraud and abuse.
We did not have to have this full creation of
(00:45):
dose the committee itself.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That is our job.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So what I want to talk about is what something
that the American people may want to know, which is economically,
how is this impacting them? These failed immigration policies that
are only put on so that they can have a show,
because we have a reality show president who seemingly still
believes that this is all about TV instead of real lives.
So let me talk about something really quickly because I
(01:12):
want to clarify something because I believe that all of
you understand the importance of something like tourism.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are you aware, any of you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Are you aware as to whether or not tourism in
the United States is anticipated to decrease to the extent
that we are estimated to lose twelve point five billion
dollars in international vendor spending in just the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I can answer, as the tourism capital of the country.
Oh good, tourism is already down. It is down in
the North Country where the Canadians refuse to come over
because of the hostility toward their country. It's happening in
New York City. It's happening our sporting venture, our theater.
There is a ripple effects throughout our entire economy because
of a change in attitude that our country that once
(01:59):
welcome people all over the world to visit and recreate
and to live here, now it feels like a very
hostile place to them. It is going to have an
economic impact on our bottom line without it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So let's talk about it a little bit more so.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I am supposed to have a number of FIFA games
in Dallas, and I am fully anticipating that we are
going to have a problem because I've been receiving phone
calls that people don't feel safe coming here, and it's
not the immigrants, it's this government that is making them
feel unsafe.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But let me also do this, because they love to
cherry pick.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
They can't find, you know, any one person that has
been killed, and if they've been killed by an immigrant,
then god darn it, every single immigrant is going out
and they are killers, and that is the problem. But
they don't want to talk about white supremacy. I don't
know how many hearings we don't have about the fact
that there's been this one immigrant that killed this one person.
And no, I'm not excusing any killings by them or
(02:50):
white supremacists, but they haven't had these hearings.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We didn't have a.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hearing on Buffalo and what happened there. We didn't have
a hearing on El Paso and what happened there. We
didn't have a hearing on Charles and what happened there.
So it's interesting that they pick and shoose because it
seems like they love to palle around with the white
supremacists and so they don't want to.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Talk about certain other things. But economically.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I want to make sure that we're making this point
again because I know that Governor Pritsker, you were the
beneficiary of a lot of things from the state of Texas,
and a lot of people believe that Republicans are fiscally responsible,
but instead they are actually fiscally irresponsible. Because what he
spent was a whopping two hundred and twenty one million
(03:30):
dollars transporting people from Texas to your state. Something tells
me that he could have done something else with that
two hundred and twenty one million dollars. In addition to that,
I know that there's been some conversations about what's going
on in LA 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
(03:52):
off between the President and his little friend.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So they wanted to change.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
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 fishly responsible, they would tell the American people that
it cost them one hundred and thirty four million dollars
to send the National Guard to La for the quote
unquote riots that the governor didn't ask for, nor did
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the mayor of LA 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
this because the brokenness is a feature, not a flaw,
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of the system, because it is beneficial to them when.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It comes to campaigning.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
If they can't stoke fear, then why are they going
to say, have anybody vote for them?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Because that's what people are doing. They're voting not a fear.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But Miss Perryman, we know each other a little will
and I know you got a law agree, and it
seems like we all know a lot degrees in here
nowadays to understand the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So really, briefly, I just want to make this point.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
There is a certain person that was afforded, say due process.
But let's say, if say Donald Trump had been charged
with all of these cases that he got charged with
and for different jurisdictions, if he wasn't afforded due process,
there could have been a possibility that he just would
have been locked up and thrown somewhere, right, that would
be a possibility, and then maybe we wouldn't have a
(05:26):
tariff or anything else that we're dealing with, or all
the other nonsense.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But the point is he was afforded due process.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And regardless of the political opposition Democrats, Republicans, and independence,
I thought believe that due process should be afforded to everybody,
even him.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Due processes for everyone.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, So the Fifth Amendment doesn't say that it's just
for the people that are Americans.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
It does not.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It says anybody on our soils, for everyone. Okay, it's
pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't know why we are having issues, but I
think you and I will.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yield well, folks.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Pennsylvania CON's Women in Summer League she got in on
the action as well, and she didn't hold her talk.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Proba's funny, the lack of decorum that we get people drop.
We do drop. The gentlemen act here oftentimes when attacking
women who aren't able to defend themselves with equal time.
But that's kind of the theme here, right, Attacking Americans
are people who are not able to defend themselves, or
at least who Republicans hope can't defend themselves. And that's
what we're seeing essentially in Los Angeles. So I would
(06:31):
say that this hearing is quite timely. What's happening with
ICE in the military and Los Angeles is terrifying, and
it's directly caused by Trump's policies, and it's cruelty. It
was Trump's over zailous ICE agents who started this specific incident,
and now they want us to get bobbed out and
arguing over the right types of protests or the right
types of way, or the right way to defend yourself,
(06:54):
the mythical perfect type, so that we could ignore that
Trump is the one who is escalating all of this.
Trump is the one who ordered in thousands of National
guardsmen over the objection of Governor Newsom, something that hasn't
been done since nineteen sixty five. Trump is the one
deploying marines not on an enemy abroad, but on the
American people who are exercising their First Amendment right in
(07:18):
this instance, the only opportunity that they have to defend
themselves against lawless lawmakers who are imposing cruelty upon them
for party of so called law and order folks. They
shore stampeding over people's constitutional rights and intentionally inciting more
chaos or fear, more anxiety, and increasing the likelihood that
(07:40):
people will get hurt in the end. What's happening in
Los Angeles is just one of many incidents where Trump
and his administration have not given a single damn about
people's safety. For one, the ICE in DHS agents that
are arresting people in raiding places often don't even have
any kind of uniform or identifying badge. They're masked and
they're unmarked cars. Miss Perriman, just briefly, why is it
(08:03):
so dangerous to have mass plane, closed ICE agents arresting people?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
So I'll just thank you, congress Woman for your question.
I'll go back to what I said before that we
know our constitution recognizes and our country recognizes the importance
of trust between local law enforcement, the federal government, and governors.
And what we're seeing here is a breach of trust.
It's an escalation, and it's dangerous for the American people.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Trump said he was only going to go after undocumented criminals,
but that's clearly not the case, whether through incompetence or
straight up racial profiling ice and DHS agents are wrongfully
arresting US citizens. We've talked about it today there and
catching these mistakes often happens too late, after an American
citizen has already been illegally thrown into another country and
(08:55):
Trump's administration is doing nothing to get them back. These
agents are also going into previously protect it spaces as
we've discussed, like churches and schools and hospitals. DHS agents
try to get into an elementary school by lying that
they had the permission from the parents. That is a
cartoonish level of evil. I also arrested a Massachusetts high
(09:15):
school senior, Marcelo go Maza Silva, on his way to
volleyball practice.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Governor Walls, you're a former teacher and coach.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Do you think these kinds of actions create instability for
students and do you worry about increasing anxiety of kids
coming to school?
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Well, thank you, Congressman. I certainly do creating that safe
environment where our kids can come and the expectation is
to learn, they certainly do. Once again, there's no reason
to use these enforcement actions at those locations when there
are other tools, and I think again there's false equivalency
that We do not want violent criminals to be to
(09:54):
be arrested, detained and go through due process. We do,
but hugely detrimental to educationational system. Hugely detrimental to a
system that is dependent on trust and the good will
of everyone in that school system.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
So yeah, it is detrimental, thank you, Governor Wallase.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
He's saying, kids getting a wrestler, often being separated from
their families. They're scared, they're alone. An attorney is one
of the few resources they had access to that is
now being taken away. As well, the Trump administrations canceled
contracts with legal groups that represent those undocumented children in
immigration court. This is going to force thousands of kids
as young as two years old to represent themselves so
very quickly as we're running out of time, experimid, how's
(10:32):
a two year old supposed to represent themselves in court?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Two year old can't represent it self and court him
or her self in court. And I'll just say that
we are in court every single day seeking to try
to ensure that people have access to legal representation, which,
of course this administration is really seeking to curtail. They're
seeking to ignore due process rights.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I was going to say, would you say that it
is due process. If a two year old is left
to represent themselves.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Absolutely, it's a flagrant violation of our constitution. It's also
something that shocks the conscience.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll leave it.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
There, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I yo back, so B.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
One of the reasons why we like to show the
full five minutes of House members and some of these
Senate hearings, it's because a lot of folks never actually
see or hear Black Caucus members in action. People often
talk about, well, what are they doing. I don't see
them standing up, I don't see them fighting, But these
(11:31):
things happen. We know the Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is trying
to become the next ranking member that is the leading
Democrat on this House Overside committee. And so people need
to understand that when we talk about the House and
the Senate, the rules are different, the power is different,
and the reality is you use these hearings to be
(11:52):
able to put these facts out there so people are
aware of actually what's going on.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
In this country.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Definitely think you can hear it in both of those
young ladies, the way they were able to just talk
about how harmful this is, how wasteful this is, even
in me working with death kids.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
This summer, trying to teach employment skills. Their parents are worried.
These ice rays are creating a place where we can
give our students the teams they need so they can
be successful in the future.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And because they're.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Worried about ice raids and how that's going to impact
their family, you're hearing people say, you know it's not impacting,
so why are we worried about it? When you see
kids and them writing letters and I may not have
access to my previous or I may have to go
back to Mexico or wherever they came from. This is
(12:47):
just so disheartening to have our leaders being on the
front line, running after positions that put them in over
psych commedies that will stop some of these things. We
are not powerless. We have to get out, we have
to be active. We have to unify, and we have
to fight for the things that are super important for
(13:07):
our kids, for our future, and for a country that
has always been built on so many diverse individuals and
diverse groups. Being in this country listening to their just
listening and what she was saying, it's so important that
we identify that we had to stand up We can't
(13:30):
just be sitting back tulling our thumbs while they're running
our communities, deshoring our communities, and agitating protests that are peaceful.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know, Recie, there are a lot of people here
as some African Americans. Man, this stuff don't involve us.
This ain't you know, we ain't got nothing to do
with this year. Folk had better wake to hell up.
I've read this the last two days, and I know
I couldn't wait to read this for you and Greg
(14:02):
and that is Christopher Ruffo had posted this on his
substack earlier this week, where he said that at the
same time as we saw demonstrated in Portland, Oregon during
the George Floyd riots, the agency should dispatch unmarked vans
to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets
(14:24):
while the media are not looking. The most effective riot
control is to take movement leaders off the field, infiltrate
their networks, disrupt the flow of funding, and roll them
up and fell investigations. Denying the left trained protest leaders
(14:46):
now will create a strong precedent for the rest of
the president's term. If these folks don't think that they
will do this to black activists. They are out of
their minds.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
They've been doing it to since you think of the
Black Panther Party and seeking all of these other organizations
that were infiltrated, they've been doing this. This this is
their game plan.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
They've always had it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So we can't be no, no, no, I'm sorry, wellc rec go.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Yeah, you know what, it's passed the time of hypothesizing
about what they plan to do. They are already doing it.
These are the people that felt like they didn't go
far enough in squashing the Black Lives Matter protests, so
they are chomping at the bit itching to get black people.
Be very clear about that, and I know that there
(15:43):
is some sentiment amongst some people not all that this
is about protesting, and well, black people don't get out
there and protests because that's what they're going to use
as an excuse to wrap you up. Oh no, no, no,
no no, you don't have to be protesting. You could
just be walking home. There was a lady Yestera. It
(16:04):
was a white lady I saw two days ago who
was trying to go to her apartment building who was
attacked by the police. So as long as these that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was a black woman that was a black woman from
I'm sorry, that was a woman from Chili who was
on vacation with her child, and they snatched her in
New York City and left her daughter there shredded and
held that woman for eight hours.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And hell, she was just here on vacation.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And we've seen even in.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
It's really racial profiling, but we've seen were American citizens,
military officers who are just playing clothes at the time,
who are detained. The reality is you don't want to
not just end up in South Sadana Djibouti, but you
don't want to be in the crosshairs of beast people
at all. And so the presence of forty eight hundred
(16:55):
military personnel under the thumb of Donald Trump in any
city is a problem. Greg Abbey is I believe I
read going to only five thousand National Guards. But what
people are going to be trying to go to June
teenth barbecues and shit, do some line dances, and yet
he's going to be sitting all of these military people.
(17:18):
So even if you're not going protest going to the barbecue,
you go into the presence of these forces.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
For black people, like.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Black theory, they don't need an actual reason. Your existence
is reason enough for them. And so that's why we're
trying to warn people to stay woke, stay prepared, and
stay vigilant. If you don't want to get out there
and hold protest lines to be on the front lines, okay,
but you still need to keep your head on the swivel.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Greg, These black folks better recognize this ain't just about
this ain't about latinos, This ain't about my No. These
Terse's point, they are pissed off with what happened with
Black Lives Matter. They're pissed off that it was able
to become the first black protests in American history where
(18:12):
a majority of American citizens supported.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
And that's why they attack.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's why the right wing media attacked Black Lives Matter
with everything they had in twenty twenty one. They attack
critical race theory of twenty twenty two, they attack woke
in twenty twenty three, they attack DEI in twenty twenty four.
They are absolutely angry with what I call the Third
Reconstruction and they said, oh no, we are going to
(18:40):
destroy this.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ain't black folks, You negroes ain't having no footprint ever again.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's their dream. It's a it's a dying dream.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
This is their death rattle, and like many trapped animals,
they are the most dangerous when they are facing their end.
The strongest and only consistent diversity, equity and inclusion grouping
in the history of the United States of America's whiteness.
The DEI intellectual Christopher Ruffo, who if he were a
(19:14):
black man would not be writing or talking about anything,
But because he is a white man and a white nationalist,
he's promoted and platformed to talk about.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Things he doesn't understand. Is giving voice to their fantasy.
Speaker 12 (19:33):
It's a dying fantasy, but in its death knail, in
its death rattle, it is perhaps it's most dangerous. I
spent yesterday in New York at the Schomberg Center testifying
before the New York State Reparations Commission. Was there last
year when Governor Hokle, who we saw testifying today there
(19:54):
in Congress, signed the billing of legislation creating the study
Commission in New York, And as I anticipated, I wrote
my remarks fully anticipating that I would be shouted at
from the audience from the descendants of slaves crowd which
they did. I kind of smiled this recorded us out
there in New York State website, and you'll see me
(20:16):
kind of chuckle and say, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
For all the smoke, all the baby smoke. But I
bring it up for this reason.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Afterwards, I had a long conversation standing outside of the
Schomberg one hundred thirty fifth and in Malcolm X with
many of these folks, these freedmen, these aight hours folk,
who I embraced because I understand the pain that they're
speaking from. But as we had the conversation, which was
very amicable, and you know, because we're talking with the
spirit of generosity, we all want the same thing. But
(20:46):
what melted away from them was any logic connected with
this blackface nativism. The idea in New York City, of
all places, that you could somehow separate yourself from the
multi ethnic, multicultural polyglot that is New York City and
stand on the other side opposite people who are in
harms way exactly like you, and who, to your point,
(21:10):
are in harm's way exactly like them, is absurd on
its face, and their arguments melted away.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I set all that as a backdrop to this.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
That House Oversight Committee which is run by another DEI politician,
James Calmer, who if he were a black man, would
be excoriated widely for being as stupid as he is.
And of course the congress woman from WrestleMania, Macho man
savage from Georgia, I mean Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia,
another DEI politician, if she were a black woman, would
(21:42):
be widely excoriated. When we saw Summer Lee and Jasmine
Crockett do what they are going to do increasingly, and
Maxwell Frost on that committee which is assumed leadership in
a democratic party, who is still nursing the fantasy that
you can make peace with these white nationalist which means
they are soft white nationals.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
It's coming down to this.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
We will embrace the politics of solidarity, regardless that people
want to throw up with this person, don't like this
person or this group said this about this. You know
what later for that, Because these people are in the
streets trying to act as if they can sustain this bullying.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
They're bullies.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
You know what you do with a bully, You put
them dead ass in the mouth and politically organizing in
the courts and they will fold like the.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Cheap DEI suits. They are.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
But at this moment, this is not the moment to
talk about my friend, my colleague.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
This is not the moment to turn your back on
other people.
Speaker 12 (22:34):
Because they are sending these punk ass jack booty thugs
like them, three undersized boys that tried to tackle Alex
Padia and expecting us to respond with or I know,
Sanity is going to be a showdown, friends, Roland, and
I'm reaching everybody. I mean, I'm saying this is more
of all of us. It's not gonna be nice Sunday afternoon,
(22:59):
downtown Washington, DC, on the mall, and we may be
talking about a very different conversation on on on Saturday
night and Sunday and then when you come back with
the show on Monday than we are having right now,
because they understand one thing if they don't understand anything else.
We live in a society where people are not paying attention.
(23:19):
It's a mean culture. They're not studying, and so when
you show lead, when you show Jasmine Crockett testifying, you
have to the reason you do that so much is
because people are not paying attention, and they will tell
you straight to your face that they're not doing what
they are doing.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It's the time for us to be serious. Now.
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