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And talk over me because you don't want to hear what I have
to say. Oh, I'm listening.
So why don't you just keep your mouth shut?
Oh, because you showed. Up.
You showed up. Boy, it is heating up in DC as
representatives are confronting each other on Capitol Hill over
this government shutdown that isnow pushing into one week.
It started off with Representative Mike Johnson
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getting confronted by Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Ruben
Gallego of Arizona. They walk up and they confront
Speaker the House Mike Johnson, who honestly doesn't give very
satisfying answers. Then not long after, this video
comes out of Representative MikeLawler confronting leader Hakeem
Jeffries. And honestly, Jeffries really
sticks to landing in this video.I think he does a great job of
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combating the talking points, the BS coming from MAGA.
On top of that, he's just, he's convincing, he's confident, he's
quick on his feet, and he kind of just rolls over the other
person. I'm going to play this
interaction in one second, but let's start off with this
interaction of Senator Gallego and Senator Kelly confronting
Mike Johnson over his refusal toswear in Representative Grijalva
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from Arizona. This representative just won a
special election after her father passed away.
She is supposed to be sworn in. She was supposed to be sworn in
weeks ago. This is the longest delay in
American history, and it's for afew reasons.
First of all, the Epstein files could be released.
If she is sworn in. She would be the 218th vote.
Secondly, it gives Republicans less leverage overall.
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And overall, they're just kind of breaking the system to try to
get ahead as they do over and over and over.
This time, they're not swearing in someone who won an election.
So this clip is long, but I'm going to let it play.
Out just keeps on moving, yeah. Well, it's not great.
We're happy that she got elected.
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She's filling her father's seat.That's fantastic.
We have a long tradition here and a process of how we
administer the oath to a member.You know, he served here for a
while. We're going to do that as soon
as we get back to work. But we need the lights turned
back on. So we encourage both of you to
go open to government. We do that.
Republican swore. No, the the exception is there
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were two Floridians who were elected in a special election.
This happened a couple months back.
They were here on a day, they had their families here, They
had a scheduled day for the oathof office and the House was
called out of session that day. They had all their family and
friends here. So we went ahead and went
through the process. Let me finish.
Let. Me, ask the question, if you can
ask it. And so that was the exception we
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did because the family was here.Miss Grijalva.
Recollect, Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she
was elected after the House was out of session.
So I'm anxious to administer theoath to her.
You guys just don't want. To be on Epstein discharge how
much because you're. Totally.
Absurd. You guys are experts at repair
industry. Moving them.
Up There's nothing to do with Epstein.
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The House Oversight Committee. The House Oversight Committee is
working on the Epstein files right now, releasing 34,000
pages and more on the web. No, she's let me finish the
House Oversight Committee. Come up excuses.
This is an excuse so she doesn'tsign on to that.
This is absurd, This. Is the longest time that you?
Want me to answer the question if you ask the question?
I actually answer the question. This entirely has to do it.
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You see, this is a publicity stunt.
Let me tell you what's happening.
The House Oversight Committee isworking on the release of the
Epstein files. There are some of the biggest
Bulldogs in Congress and the Republican and Democrat side who
are working on that aggressively.
By the way, the Epstein files are getting released by
Republicans right after they released the Matt Gates.
Matt Gates files from a year or two back.
Remember, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was the person who
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intentionally covered up whatever the DOJ was alleging
Matt Gaetz did. We know that he sent Venmo
payments, but there was allegedly A deeper investigation
into Matt Gaetz actions. It was covered up by Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson. It was so bad, Matt Gaetz
literally resigned from his seat.
Why isn't this talked about more?
That we had a high profile mainstream Republican resign due
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to sex allegations that were being investigated?
Why isn't this talked about more?
The reason I'm looping this backis because now it seems like
they're covering up more stuff. With the victims before they
went out and do the press conference.
And the House Oversight is doingits job.
Did you know? You might not because we haven't
been in session. The House Oversight has its
lawyers in New York City coming through the Epstein estate
files. None of that had been
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anticipated by discharge petitions or anything else.
They have subpoenas that are being supplied that they're
being followed through on by theDepartment of Justice.
We have more subpoenas that are outstanding for big name
persons, Democrats and Republicans.
And there are more documents coming through.
You're doing the work. They're doing it methodically.
They're doing it with subpoena power.
And you don't need an act of Congress for that to happen
because they're already on it. I was in the.
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Room with all of that. I'm not blocking her, I just
this is. The longest time that has been
out of session that's not in a regular office session here.
This is the longest time it's taken for someone to be sworn
in. And it all had to coincide with
the fact that she's going to be the deciding vote and the
discharge. But I.
Know he said something very important there.
This is the longest it's ever taken to swear somebody in who
won an election. You're upset.
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I know where you're upset. You get a lot of heat because
the government's closed down andyou guys actually don't You
wait, Wait. I got 5.
Times. The gaslighting, I love it.
I love the gaslighting from MikeJohnson.
He's like, you guys are mad because you shut the government
down. Dude, you're sitting there
smuggling, really talking about how you won't let this
representative be sworn in and the government shut down while
you guys have power and you're going to point to two Democrats
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and say it's their fault. Let's see what Senator Kelly has
to say. I know he'll bring it on.
Why? Don't we do this?
Why don't you bring back we're Republican members so we can
have a serious. Negotiation.
We're going to have plenty of negotiations.
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Why don't we? Why don't?
We Why don't we let me? Tell you why they're not here
because the house and it's. 14 days since July 25th.
Yeah, and real people have been on.
The bank and they've been on an extended summer.
But they're not. They bring it.
Back. I have an opportunity.
I can talk to every one of my Republican colleagues down
there, and we're talking about this all the.
Time. Yeah, and they're talking about
it over here as well. And Republican members from
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Arizona, where are they? They're in their district,
they're in their districts working.
They're sitting. They're.
Sitting in their basement. In New York.
With all due respect, you voted multiple times to keep the
government shut down, OK? The Republican members from
Arizona voted to keep the government open.
They did. So don't sit here and try to
lecture us about whether or not we.
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Did our. Job.
We did our job, you did not. Oh.
You mean the bill that I'm signed on to extend it?
Oh, yeah, right. Because we actually have put
forth legislation going to do it.
You guys just keep pontificating.
How about you go down the floor and go close to open the
government? It continues to get heated.
Then Mike Lawler goes and confronts leader Hakeem Jeffries
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over the exact point that he just tried to make to them.
He says, listen, I have something written up that will
give you guys the ACA extensionsyou're asking for.
That's what he says in order to try.
And you know what's really funnyin that he's conceding that
Democrats don't actually want health care for people who are
illegal. That's what they're claiming.
The Republicans, he basically concedes that they just want a
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health care extension. He's conceding in that.
Let's watch him try this on Leader Jeffrey.
So on. Your extension.
Yeah. We signed on, right?
You. Did you get permission from your
boss? Did you boss Donald Trump?
Did your boss? Did your boss, Donald Trump
give? You because.
Yes, he is. No.
He's. Not by the.
Way. Let me ask you a question.
Ask your question. For years you're.
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Making You're making a show of this to make yourself.
Relevant. You're embarrassing yourself
right now. You're.
An embarrassment. You voted for the one thing that
we vote, correct? I voted for a large bill that
gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history.
By the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4000 tax cut.
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Are you against that? You're embarrassing.
You want to. You want to cut the standard
deduction in the. Largest cut to Medicaid?
In American history, you voted for that fraud and.
Abuse. You voted.
You. Asked a question.
Pointed out that 1.2 billion you're not going to you're.
Not going to talk talk. To me, you're.
Not going to talk to me and talkover.
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Me because? You don't want to hear what I
have to say, so why don't you just keep your mouth shut?
Because you showed up. You showed up.
You showed up. And so you voted for this one
big ugly bill. You can extend it.
A permanent extension of massivetax breaks?
Yep. For your billionaire.
Don't so 90% of America. They can get a permanent.
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So there's a moment there where Leader Jeffries goes, you can
shut your mouth. It's a forceful moment.
It's good. Someone in the, I don't know who
it says it, someone off camera, I believe goes.
Is that the way you're supposed to speak?
Are you joking right now, you'renot OK with the Minority Leader
of the House using firm languageas somebody who keeps cutting
him off. But the president of the United
States can, I don't know, threaten to invade Chicago,
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threaten to arrest governors like Pritzker just today,
threaten to go after people overand over, political opponents
like comedy and Bolton. Yeah, I'm sorry, But Leader
Hakeem Jeffries can say what he wants at this point.
We're going to leave it there. If you appreciate this, drop a,
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