Trump Witnesses COLLAPSE on LIVE TV from CROSS-EXAM

Trump Witnesses COLLAPSE on LIVE TV from CROSS-EXAM

Democratic senators are going gloves off, ripping the Trump witnesses to shreds who are testifying before them. Take a look at Democratic Senator Slotkin from Michigan as she looks with disgust at dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome. Let’s play the clip. My concern is you’re sending a chill down the spine of America by going after people who either have legal status or American citizens. And when my colleagues ask you about habius corpus and you say literally we can review the tape that you believe it’s a right the president has you sat here in front of all of us and swore an oath to the constitution and that is not at all what habius corpus is. It is a right that we all get, that American citizens get, that fe people who are in the United States legally have. So my concern is it’s complete overreach. I don’t think American citizens, even those who voted for Trump, believe that you should be able to just grab someone off the street, sloppy, who has the legal right to be here, and certainly an American citizen. And I I just I just am concerned um that while you say you’re going after the most dangerous folks, what you’re actually doing is going after folks for political reasons. Right. A PhD student a PhD student that’s absolutely not deporting US citizens and we’re not deporting 10 of them have legal status here. 10 American citiz. And we’re now also learning about uh the Trump regime sending a Burmese national to South Sudan in violation of a federal judges order. We’ll be covering that more in depth as well. Uh a massive violation of a court order there. Then you have Democratic Senator Dick Durban schooling RFK Jr. in some basic facts. And RFK Jr. is forced to admit. Oh, I guess I’m just learning this now. Play this clip. But I want to remind you on April 1st, 10 laboratory heads at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes received their layoff notices. They were all PhDs and senior investigators. They’re not administrators, whatever that might be. They were running intramural labs at NIH. If you have your way, they’ll all be gone on June 2nd. Science magazine reported 25 of 320 physician researchers at NIH’s internal clinical center or lever and the number of patients treated in the hospital has been reduced by 30%. Three grants involving ALS and dementia work at Northwestern University Institute Illinois have been paused. One looking at how to stop the buildup of damaged proteins and other looking at cellular mechanisms that can be drug targets. Just last week, an ALS researcher at Harvard had his grant cut that was using AI to accelerate the reversal of ALS symptoms. Brian Wallik is waiting for a cure. He is not giving up. His source of hope is this research that you unfortunately are terminating. How can we possibly address his concerns and give hope to people across the country who are suffering for so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? As I said, uh, Senator, I I do not know about any cuts to ALS research, and I’m happy to I just read them to you. I I will have to go and talk with Jay Bachara and find out what the rationale was for those cuts. I don’t I just don’t know about them until you told him told me about them at this moment. There are many things that concern both of us about the state of public health in America. Next up, you have Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Here’s her line of questioning where she talks about how all this Trump crap is a bunch of political theater and not progress. Beautiful line of questioning right here. Play this clip. So, I have some questions. The questions are going to be, is it political theater or progress? You ready? The first question is going to be doing an executive order revoking birthright citizenship. Political theater or progress? Political theater. It doesn’t help the mission of ICE. Okay. How about revoking student visas? It takes up the time of ICE officers and his political theater and it takes away from the national security and public safety mission. How about bashing car windows of people with no criminal record? That’s driven from quotas of arrests being driven by the White House and that is politization of ICE immigration enforcement. So it’s political theater. How about deporting people who are even citizens? That’s not even deportation, but you know what I’m saying. It’s political theater. And I believe that this White House is getting the outcome, you know, the the reaction that they want and they desire. How about arresting political opponents? That would be political theater. Yeah. So, here’s the deal. I know that you’ve been cut off a number of times as you have tried to give answers to various questions. Thank you so much for explaining that even this committee hearing is actually a bunch of political theater because there’s a lot of things that we could be talking about. We could be talking about the fact that we are currently in reconciliation. And while everyone else has been told to do things such as make sure that you take food out of people’s mouths, make sure that you get rid of people’s health care, make sure that you um are harming our federal workers even more by making sure that the resources that they need to be able to do their job just kind of disappear. But at the same time, I think the way that Mr. Moscowitz figured it it would be approximately $44,000 um as relates to a bonus for each each ICE agent. Is that correct? It’s incorrect. It was 42,000. Okay, my bad. Um but the reality is that we do have real problems and I don’t know how we’re going to get to real solutions if we continue to just make everything about politics as it was properly outlined by the gentleman from Florida. That was a Republican bill. And I’ll be perfectly honest with you, I wasn’t really a big fan of the bill myself on my side. So, I know that there was a lot of conservative stuff in that bill that was going to be harmful. And with that, I am going to yield back to the gentleman from Florida. More from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who brings the fight. Play the clip. Federal law explicitly prohibits DHS from quote preventing a member of Congress from entering for the purpose of conducting oversight any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens or to make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed. served by a visiting member of Congress. It is against the law. Full stop. Separately, the court has consistently held that the speech and debate clause of the Constitution protects individual members from prosecution for legislative acts, including quote factf finding, field investigations, and information gathering. The court has consistently held that the primary purpose of the speech and debate clause is to quote prevent intimidation by the executive and before a possibly hostile judiciary. So let’s call this for what it is. This administration is criminalizing legislative oversight and the Republicans on this committee are helping them to do so. Rep. Macyver didn’t engage in interference. It was ICE that engaged in interference while members of Congress attempted to conduct legitimate oversight of ICE facilities. Now we’ve got Democratic Congress member Jamie Rasin who’s fired up. He’s pissed. You’ve got the Trump regime giving the family of Ashley Babbot $5 million from taxpayer money. She was an insurrectionist who would not listen to the cops when she tried to break into the secured area. and she and a group of other insurrectionists threatened the lives of Republican, Democrat, independent members of Congress. Watch Raskin go in play the clip. In Trump world, violent insurrectionists and cop beating extremists are heroes. They’re martyrs. They’re patriots. Members of Congress performing oversight functions are criminals and insurrectionists. and veteran criminal prosecutors of January 6 felons are fired so Donald Trump can continue to pander to his private militia of pardon rioters and insurrectionists and a reserve army of extremists who’ve proven themselves willing to stand back and stand by more from Democratic Congress member Rasin here. Let’s play it. In 2023, then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, “I think the police officer did his job.” Now, although Trump’s new attorney general is set to give $5 million to the riers family, Trump has not proposed to give a penny to the more than 140 police officers injured, wounded, hospitalized, disfigured, and/or disabled in their violence and nothing to their families. He’s proposed no money payments to the bereaveved family of officer Brian Siknic, an army veteran with two tours abroad who died at age 42 here on January 7th, 2021, the very next day after being brutalized by rioters. The decision to give millions of dollars to the Babbot family and nothing to the families of the police officers who defended this capital who defended us exacerbates the insult of Speaker Johnson’s continuing refusal to hang a simple plaque in honor of the officers who defended the capital and the Congress and the vice president. a plaque mandated by law and now more than two years overdue on the west front of the capitol. The speaker’s stubborn refusal to respect the law is craven submission to the executive branch to Donald Trump who wants to pretend that the rampaging mob that he sent to Congress was made up of patriotic heroes and that the people he pardoned were quote hostages. More from Rasin. Let’s play it. Now, we’ve got colleagues who celebrate January 6 insurrectionists actually calling for prosecution of members of the House for doing their jobs. Representative Buddy Carter called our colleagues rioters. Representative Bishop actually said this was an insurrection. I didn’t know that was in his vocabulary, but this was an insurrection. And he said it was a debacle worse than 9/11. Next up, we’ve got Democratic Congress member Jared Moscowitz, who points out the amount of waste in the MAGA Republican budget where they want to give $800 million in bonuses to ICE agents. $42,000 per ICE agent. And Moscow is like, I’m okay. Give them give them a bonus. But like, does does that 42,000 per ICE agent? What about all the FEMA people were cutting and the NIH people and CDC who were firing and the veterans who were firing? Here, play this clip. Mr. Marino, on that topic of bonuses, just real quick, do do you support ICE agents getting $42,000 worth of bonuses? There’s there’s $800 billion for bonuses. Okay, I say I say billion, I’m sorry, million. I apologize. $800 million in there for bonuses. Do you support that? Yeah. What kind of bonuses are we talking about? Are we talking retention bonuses? This is a great Mr. Marino. Great question. They didn’t say at all in the backup. There was no documentation at all what the bonuses were for or what it would be. It was just 800 million for bonuses. It sounded like a lot of money for federal employees for bonuses. Not that we don’t want to treat our federal employees great. Of course we do. But I had suggested 500 million for bonuses and they said, “No, 500 million sounds a little better, right?” Well, look, I or zero. Are you at zero for bonuses? Maybe I I I never received a $42,000 bonus. Good. Perfect. We federal government. However, however, however, times are different. Recruiting is tougher. Retention is a challenge. And if that’s something that it’s needed for, I would support. So, so do you support those bonuses for Noah, FEMA, the Pentagon, all other departments, or just ICE? I I would support strategic use of retention bonuses where they were needed. I think what’s going on there because as you heard it’s not even described what this money is for. I think it’s a slush fund to buy more ads on in my opinion to buy more ads on Fox and to spread more kind of Trump propaganda is I think what that’s going to be used for. And I think they’re using the idea of ICE agents as like a sympathetic uh figure while the money is actually going to go to Trump propaganda. Folks, Senator Murray, watch her line of questioning. Let’s play the clip. You repeatedly claim that staffing and funding cuts that have been reported on publicly and even confirmed by your department staff are not happening. So either you’re lying or you’re not the one making the decisions. Senator, you pro presided here I think for 32 years. You presided over the destruction of the health of the American people. Well, I our people are now the sickest people in the world. Oh, Democratic Congresswoman Baragan, I thought really uh destroyed Lee Zeldon, the EPA administrator for Trump. Play this clip. Um, you just mentioned two examples. Have you or EPA lawyers actually given that to the core or use that cited that as fraud or criminality? Well, first off, the uh the standard It’s a yes or no. Have you You’re a lawyer. Yes, they have mentioned this. Which hearing was it at? Because I don’t see it in the transcript um uh that happened in the United Climate conversation. As a matter of fact, I’m going to read to you the court transcript. Can you profer any evidence that there was illegal or evidence of abuse or fraud that any of this was improper, unlawful? EPA lawyer. I’m certainly not suggesting any of that was illegal or improper. Okay. Just yesterday, an EPA lawyer at the hearing uh suggested, “We’re not accusing anybody of fraud.” Did you understand that the evidence for EPA is not to establish criminality at the agency? Well, you’re you’re alleging criminality. You did so in a Fox News interview. You said that’s what this production fund was in order to You shouldn’t be doing that if you cannot pro offer the evidence. But, Congresswoman, this is this is not Fox News. We’re not going to just allow you to just allegations here without that evidence. Well, if this isn’t if this isn’t a media interview, you should allow me to go through the entire list rather than just going through. Well, unfortunately, I only have 5 minutes and I don’t have time for interested in the entire list of all the evidence cutting me off, but allow me to get through the list. Here we got some good questioning from Democratic Senator Widen. Let’s play it. You’ve been getting all these questions from my colleagues with respect to this $165,000 in campaign donations after the announcement uh that you had been uh nominated is the concern about the possibility that promises were made in exchange for that money. I just want to give you the chance to go over this with me. Did you promise any tax promoter you would help them if you got confirmed? I can answer that with an affirmative no. Okay. So, you didn’t meet with anybody when you were in town for the inauguration and promised them a private letter arrangement or something like that. A private letter arrangement. I don’t I where you say we’re going to help we’re going to help you if I’m confirmed. I haven’t promised anybody a letter of any type that I can think of. Okay. And I was in my room for about 50 hours cuz I had food poisoning during the inauguration. So, I didn’t talk to many people. Okay. Mr. Long, our staff investigators have on tape now the tax promoter saying you met with him at the inauguration and promised him a favorable private letter ruling. We also have on tape the White River CFO who gave you the thousands of dollars that he expects favorable treatment of these fake tribal uh credits. So that’s why I’m so troubled by this argument you’ve given today that well you can go over to the FEC and see things that money doesn’t just fall out of the sky and land at the FEC and that’s why these um taped uh conversations are so troubling uh to me. Democratic Senator Baldwin, let’s play it. Any life saving saving research? Is it Doge reviewing NIH funding opportunity announcements? Is it Doge reviewing NIH grant award? We’ve got administrators. We’re cutting waste. We’re cutting duplicative programs. We have And you’re funding $3 billion less in medical biomedical research than you did uh a year prior. We’re spending less on administration of those programs. 3,200 fewer grants we’re spending. Well, many of the grants were terminated because they were grants that were not advancing. These aren’t grants terminated. These are grants not awarded because the panels weren’t convened. We spend 70% of the world’s uh biomedical research out of NIH. 70%. And we’re the sickest country in the world. $18 billion or 40% from the NIH budget slow the development of new treatments in and we are the sickest country in the world. So that money has not been well well spent. We’ve had a 38% increase in our agency growth in our agency over the past four years. I’ll ask you is is funding for Alzheimer’s disease research centers DEI because you’re holding up $65 million for 14 of those centers in nine states including the University of Wisconsin Madison is funding for cancer centers DEI because you’re holding up $47 million in cancer center support grants at nine cancer centers in eight states is funding for rare disease research DEI because you’re holding up $55 million for 11 rare disease clinical research network grants in eight states. These are just a few examples and the list goes on and on. Secretary Kennedy, I’ve I’ve run out of time. I yield back. Thank you. This is a fun game we’re playing. Mr. Secretary, let’s talk about questions and to ask questions and don’t give me a chance to answer them. Don’t give me time to answer them. Well, maybe in some of my questions you can you can u elaborate on some of that. Democratic Senator Warren, let’s play it. I sent you this statute. You’ve had three weeks to talk to the lawyers about it. So, let’s jump in. Mr. Long, is it illegal for the president to direct the IRS to revoke a taxpayers’s nonprofit status in the first place? He wouldn’t do that. He’s not going to come. Mr. along. Please don’t start down this. Are we on section 7212 or 727? 26 USC 7217. Do I need to read it to you? Prohibits any member of the executive branch to request the IRS to conduct or terminate an audit on a taxpayer. All righty. So, is it illegal? I’m going to follow the law. And if that’s the law, yes. Okay. But I want you That is the law. Yeah. So, I just want to be clear. Is it illegal for the president of the United States to instruct the IRS to uh remove a taxpayers’s nonprofit status? Prohibits any member of the executive branch to request the IRS to conduct or terminate an audit of the taxpayer. Is is that a yes? I’d have to go to I’d have to go to the lawyers at the IRS to tell me. Come on. You just read it. I know, but I don’t see the instance that you’re speaking about in there. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see. Look, it says it shall be unlawful for any applicable person, which in this case includes the president, to request directly or indirectly any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer? Is it illegal for the president to instruct the IRS to remove nonprofit status from an a taxpayer? I’m not going to have the answer that you need and I apologize, but it like I said, why are you not having the answer? You’ve had three weeks to consult with lawyers. The statute is about as clear as plain English. Well, if I say I’m going to follow the law, why would you need to ask me the question? Well, because I want to make sure that you understand what the law says. If you think follow the law means you just get to make it up on the spot, then you don’t get to be the IRS commissioner. And then, of course, I think the clip of the day, I have to put it in this video, is Democratic Senator Hassan from New Hampshire. This is how it’s done. Let’s play it. So, Secretary Gnome, what is habius corpus? Well, habius corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, suspend their rights. Let me let me stop right corpus. Excuse me. That’s that’s incorrect. Corpus, excuse me. Habius corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason. Habius corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America, from police states like North Korea. As a senator from the live free or die state, this matters a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans. So, Secretary Gnome, do you support the core protection that habius corpus provides that the government must provide a public reason in order to detain and imprison someone? Yet, I support habius corpus. I also recognize that the president of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to decide if it should be suspended or not. Let’s be clear, though, been done. It has never been done without approval of Congress. Even Abraham Lincoln got retroactive approval from Congress. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Yeah, that’s how it’s done. 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