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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Pursuant to Clause 13 of Rule 1, the House State adjourned until 2:30pm on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
All hell just broke loose on the
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
floor of the House of Representatives as
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
Democrats tried to introduce a war powers resolution through what's called unanimous consent to try to stop Donald Trump's unlawful war power exertion, Donald Trump's unlawful war in Iran, and to restrain his power with congressional approval, which is frankly required under the Constitution. What you just saw right there were the MAGA Republicans rushing to take the gavel because in this pro forma session, the individuals presiding over it, because Republicans control the House of Representatives, is the is a Republican, the MAGA Republican. So as soon as the Democrats requested unanimous consent, meaning if there were no objections to it, the War powers resolution could at least pass in the House of Representatives unless there was an objection or unless a MAGA Republican declared it procedurally invalid. So that's why you heard the MAGA Republicans right there, you know, slam that gavel right there. MAGA Republican Congressmember Chris Smith started slamming the gavel down to basically say your out of order Democrats for simply trying to introduce a war powers resolution to say Congress should have some oversight over Donald Trump's catastrophic and unlawful war. You see Democrats right here, a large group of them now outside of the House of Representatives speaking to the press about the need for diplomacy, about the need for congressional oversight. So you have that happening. A split screen costs a over in Iran Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini has broken his silence. He has said we will enter a new phase in the management of the Strait of Hormuz. Also, Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Moj Taba Khomeini says to our southern neighbors, you are witnessing a miracle. See it correctly and stand in the right place. Be suspicious of the false promises of the devils. He also says, we will not abandon the criminal aggressors who attacked our country. We will demand compensation for every single damage and the blood price of our martyrs. Strong words from the Ayatollah. He's also saying, you, the heroic nation of Iran, have been the decisive victors of this battlefield. Iran today stands at the dawn of becoming a great power. So on the one hand you have MAGA Republican Congress members refusing to introduce a war powers resolution and gaveling out to not even allow the Democrats to try to introduce it. Over in Iran, you have the Ayatollah breaking his silence. We also have heard again from MB Golubov, Iran's very powerful Parliament leader. Here's what he says. Past experience has shown us that we must have absolute distrust toward the enemy. America's historic retreat and acceptance of the general framework of Iran's Ten Point Plan is an undeniable victory. But we consider it an incomplete step. If the United States stops violating its commitments, negotiations may be possible. In essence, we're not even getting to the step of negotiations. We've humiliated the United States by making them agree to our 10 point plan, which says Americans leave all military bases in the Middle East. Americans give us full residents reparations. Americans allow us to enrich uranium. Americans allow us to control the Strait of Hormuz and charge $2 million per ship. America allows full and long lasting security guarantees to Iran, Iran, Shiite groups in Iraq, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen. The United States removes all sanctions from Iran, all United nations sanctions in Iran, and it basically recognizes Iran as a major power player in the world. That's why I think even though Iran recognized that Donald Trump would likely break or not follow through on the ten Point Plan, the mere fact that Trump agreed to it has signaled to the rest of the world that Donald Trump is weak and pathetic in many ways. When Trump begged Pakistan before Trump's own self imposed 8:00pm Eastern Time deadline on Tuesday, please, can you get Iran to re offer us the ten Point Plan? We'll agree to it. We'll agree to it. I mean, the Trump regime literally drafted the social media post for Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan. Right. The Trump regime that Iran was like, okay, you're gonna publicly announce that you agree to these terms. The powerful United States, the superpower, the country that's led the world is going to agree to all of these terms. And that right there is a bigger victory than we could ever ask for. I mean, that's what. And they're like, well, if the United States breaks the agreement, we'll just continue to control the Strait of Hormuz, which is what they're doing right now. And what we're seeing as well as Donald Trump is now threatening all of the NATO countries and European countries that you need to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz immediately. Send the ships or else. Or else. What we're actually seeing happening is a number of nations, as John Larriere. Right. A number of nations, including France and other European countries, they're just speaking directly to Iran right now. They're not speaking with the US not sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz. They're gonna speak with Iran because Iran's the power player right now. They're the ones who are controlling, who are controlling things. So they're just gonna work bilaterally with Iran. They saw how easy it is for the United States to collapse and cede all of those 10 points. You also have Iran's Foreign Minister Aragchi posting the following moments ago. He goes. Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sunday. A region wide ceasefire, including in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the US Wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb, but we are prepared for it. They're mocking Trump. Iran is mocking the. Iran is behaving like the superpower and Donald Trump is behaving like Iran used to behave. That's the wild tables are turning. Here's what Donald, after all I've just read to you, here's what Donald Trump says. Trump says he's very optimistic about a deal with Iran. They're much more reasonable. They're agreeing to what they have to. If they don't make a deal, it's gonna be very painful. I spoke with Bibi, I spoke with Bibi Netanyahu. We have to be a little more low key. A little more low key. That's what Donald Trump's telling NBC. How utterly, utterly pathetic. And folks, we'll take a look right now at what the oil markets look like. The latest US oil prices have surged $101 a barrel. They're up 11% in the past 24 hours as growing doubts exist about a US Iran cease fire deal. Or, you know, the oil companies are saying, if Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and that's your plan. And this is what the surrounding Arab nations are saying, it will make it prohibitive, cost prohibitive for us to get oil out if we have to pay $2 million for a exit fee, which we never had to pay before this catastrophic war started. And so we're seeing that set in in the market, this sober realization, which should have said in before that Donald Trump made the worst deal. I mean, you couldn't have made a worse deal than what Donald Trump. You know, and then you have the Trump regime officials now going on, state, regime, media, and they're trying to act like things are going really well. I mean, what do you got here? You've got what as the economy is contracting, you've got Kevin Hassett over here saying, oh, actually, you know, we think the economy's gonna get much better. We expect it to be gangbuster soon. Just even though the latest fourth quarter GDP numbers show that the GDP contracted even more than expected. Initially, 1.4% was what fourth quarter GDP was, then 0.7% for the fourth quarter GDP. Now we learned that the fourth quarter GDP was 0.5%. And remember, this is when Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary, said, it's going to be gangbusters. Things are going to be amazing. So this was Kevin Hassett moments ago where he was like, you know, we think that the economy is going to get much better. Just 4%, 5% growth. It's coming. It's right around the corner.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
Here, play this clip.
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Kevin Hassett
All of that is happening because of optimism that President Trump not only will resolve this in the short term, but in the long term, his policies are going to create a golden age. And so I began the year with the guess that we'd probably be in the 4 to 5 range for economic growth because of all this. And I'll stick by those numbers. I think this is a temporary distraction that will very, very quickly go away. You saw that when you saw the market celebrate yesterday when they thought that this would be over.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
I want to bring in Democratic Congressmember Raja Krishnamoorthy. Congressman Krishnamoorthy. I mean, we're seeing this Ponzi scheme play out in real time. It's right around the corner. Don't worry, it's all gonna be amazing. And meanwhile, they get us into these catastrophic and unlawful wars. That compound things and make it worse. But always in a crisis mode, creates a distraction, whether it's a distraction from the horrific economy, the distraction from the Epstein files, the distraction from a myriad of other things that Donald Trump is doing to destroy the country. And that's what Ponzi schemers do, distract.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
There's always an emergency. Look this, let it look this way.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
And meanwhile you see what's going on. What do you make of this moment though, as this catastrophic war is following the same kind of Trump playbook, which is now he does the fraud deal, now we're in.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
And all it does is it weakens
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
us in the end because everyone looks at us like, what the hell's going on with the United States of America, man?
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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Look this, as you said, this illegal, unconstitutional war has been disastrous not only for our national security, but for our economy. I mean, you don't have to go further than the gas pump where you're starting to see, you know, $4 gas go to $5 and it's going to be six to seven dollars in places like California pretty soon. So when I hear Howard Lutnick say this economy is going to be humming, I think he's referring to humming the blues. And at this point, you're right. I think that they're trying to distract from all their domestic problems having started this foreign adventure. But now Kevin Hassett is saying this distraction is a distraction itself. I mean, it's become a disaster. And I think that we are kind of in this situation where it's a complete man made disaster. And it is not what the American people signed up for in the least. They are complaining about their gas, they're complaining about not being able to buy a home, which by the way, is becoming more unaffordable by the day because of inflation. And as the Fed hikes interest rates or considering hiking interest rates, it's going to become even more unaffordable. So this is just a catastrophe.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
Right now, the most important currency, I think, of governance and international policy is trust. And when trust and good faith is lost, the system disassembles. And what we've always been seeing with Trump's fake deals that he announces he's doing that right now with Iran. I mean, Trump makes his social media posts, We've agreed, this is what he said. We've agreed to the 10 point framework put forward by Iran. Then he reposts the Iranian foreign minister Iraq cheese message about a 10 point plan.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
And then the day later, J.D.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
vance, while leaving, of all places, Hungary, where he's propping up. Viktor Orban, a Putin puppet, says, you know what?
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
MB Golubov, the parliament leader of Iran, doesn't really speak English well. And so there was reasonable misunderstandings here.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
Like they thought Lebanon was included in the ceasefire.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
We never. It's in English. They don't understand English well. And so they actually adopted our 15 point plan, and it was just the language barrier. I mean, I kid you not, that's
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
actually what they're saying and what they're pulling right now. Congressman.
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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Yeah, and you see, Wall Street's not buying it. They don't believe that this war has necessarily even gone into ceasefire, let alone that it's going to end. And so you see these oil futures trading higher and higher and higher. I think the one big thing that has emerged is we may be winning militarily in certain regards, but we are losing economically. I mean, you can see that the Iranians have basically recognized their control of the Strait of Hormuz, and they are using that leverage to the hilt. And we are kind of in a situation where we basically exposed a huge weakness of ours, and the Iranians are now going to use that leverage to get all kinds of other things that we would otherwise not in any way agree to. And that's what I'm concerned about. I'm concerned yet again that this illustrious group of negotiators, Jared Kushner and Witkoff and Vance, are going to Pakistan and are going to basically negotiate something that, again, seeds our foreign policy interests and national security interests, just as they have with regard to Ukraine and Russia. And we're just becoming less safe as a result.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
So where do we go from here? I mean, obviously this is how Trump wants this to play out for the next three years.
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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Oh, yeah, by the way, before I get to that, I am still very concerned about the insider trading that's happening at the White House and in the executive branch, the people in the know with regard to the ups and downs of what's going on with the Iranian war, I think there's a lot of insider trading going on and people are making money off of the markets gyrating the way they have and the oil prices going up. Getting to your point, where do we go from here? We bind with our friends, partners and allies once again to try to get a diplomatic solution to all of this. Look, the Iranians must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. But I'm concerned that everything that we've done has caused them to accelerate that program. We need to have free shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. And again, our actions are causing the opposite. They are strengthening their control over the Strait of Hormuz. And then finally, we need to reduce their nefarious activities and their ballistic missile program. And I think right now those are unfortunately entrenched even more than before. So, you know, we are just in a world of hurt right now. We gotta get to a better place asap, you know?
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
And how do Democrats, though, make it clear? Or set aside Democrats? Just the media, everybody, just make it clear what's happening, because this is the cycle. You know, Trump will do this for the next few years. He will break it, but, you know, he'll keep the Ponzi scheme afloat, kind of just enough by robbing Peter to pay Paul, as they say. And then whether it's a Democratic president or whoever, Democratic president takes over, whoever that's gonna be, and then they gotta look at this and they go, it's a Biden moment. Holy crap. Like, I gotta fix this, that, and the other thing. And for me to fix it, I've got to do surgery. And for me to do the surgery, I got to open up the body. And to open up the body, it's
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
going to look ugly, but that's the
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
responsible thing to do. And the moment you start opening up the body, then your colleagues on the other side, they go, I'm a fiscal hawk, and I'm this and I'm that.
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
How dare you. And then Fox starts blasting.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
Could you believe this?
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Ron Filipkowski (Narrator/Commentator)
That and the other, the fixing. It's not easy to fix things, but then you get blamed as being the arsonist by the arsonist when you're putting out the fire. So how do we. How do we break this cycle?
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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Well, first we have to. We have to point out what's going on right now. We have to do it in a unified fashion. I think that people already realize it in their gut. I think there's tremendous buyer's remorse, Ben, among people who voted for Trump. I think they see that I talked to farmers, for instance, and they are going through hell right now because their fertilizer costs are through the roof due to fuel prices going up, which is an essential component in making fertilizer. At the same time, their counter tariffs are hitting them in the pocketbook as well. And so these are squarely Trump voters. And so these are folks who are having second thoughts about Trump. And it'll be very interesting to see what happens in places like Iowa, for instance, with their. With their upcoming gubernatorial races and other statewide races that they consider. Do they want to go the same course or do they want to go a different course? So we have to point out what voters actually voted for and got from Donald Trump. That's step one. Step two, we have to talk about, okay, what do we want to do? Right? And I think what we want to do is we want to focus back on people's pocketbook issues. We got to end the tariff chaos. We got to stop these crazy military adventures, and we have to kind of focus back on restoring some of these cuts that have decimated people's health care, whether it's in Medicaid or their food stamps or, for instance, even in the ira, the Inflation Reduction Act. Remember, one of the reasons why we are so in soup right now because of this Iran war is because of our reliance on fossil fuels and oil, okay? And the Inflation Reduction act was in part a way to incentivize the growth of our solar, wind and renewable energy industries to basically wean us off dependence on those fossil fuels and that oil, which Iran is now taking very strong advantage of. And so if we really want to get out of the grips of being dependent on the beneficence of the rulers of Iran or in the Middle east, we've got to get our act together with renewable energy. So those are the types of messages I think that we need to continue with and of course, holding the Trump administration accountable for all the horrible stuff they've done, whether it's with regard to the Epstein files, whether it's the economy, whether it's ICE or anything else.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
Congressman Krishnamoorthy, appreciate you coming on. As always, appreciate your leadership in Congress and fighting back in these crazy times.
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Ben (Host/Interviewer)
Thank you so much, Ben.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy
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