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Host
I'm looking for fighters right now. I want to know which Democrats are going to be on the front lines pushing back against this MAGA nonsense. I'll tell you who. People like Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's take a look at what she said at a hearing yesterday that was titled Oversight of fema, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which the MAGA Republicans were using to try to attack FEMA and spread conspiracy theories. Here, watch this. Play the clip.
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Jasmine Crockett
It's my understanding. Oh, I'm sorry, you're right. That over 671,000 households impacted by Hurricane Helene have received over $503 million from FEMA's Serious Needs Program. And over 218,000 households impacted by Hurricane Milton have received over $145 million. Yet. And still we had members on this committee. It looks like we had. There were 82 members that opposed the bill to fund when we knew that this was coming, thanks to NOAA. And 19 of the 26 Republicans on this oversight committee voted against the bill to keep FEMA funded, and nine are in states that were directly hit. I don't understand why we come in and pretend that we have all these issues with your agency. And I thank you for your service when you don't want to fund it.
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Host
Next up, we have Democratic Congresswoman Ramirez from Illinois's 3rd congressional district. Here she is calling out some of the MAGA Republicans who sit on this committee with her, saying, like, you all are trying to find jobs in the federal government, working for Donald Trump, your dear leader, but you hate the federal government. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip for it.
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Jasmine Crockett
In another post, you say we should destroy the federal government and that the federal government is the enemy. I find it odd considering you were once a federal employee and you've been begging to come back into the incoming Trump administration for a new job. Lastly, you posted that the federal government is the epicenter of pedophilia, an outright falsehood, with perhaps the exception of Trump's stellar attorney general pick.
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Host
Next up, we have Democratic Congresswoman AOC here. She's talking to the FEMA administrator who's one of the witnesses who the MAGA's called to attack. And here AOC is debunking all of Trump and MAGA's lies about FEMA. Play this clip.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Another one that I also saw very widely circulated, that FEMA did not have enough money to provide relief services because that allocation of funds went to either undocumented immigrants, aid to Ukraine, or even aid to the Israeli government. Is that correct. That FEMA's funds were allocated away to those causes.
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FEMA Administrator
Completely inaccurate.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Completely false on the record. Completely false. Correct.
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FEMA Administrator
Correct.
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Host
Here is AOC again from that same committee hearing. Let's play it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I previously served several terms on the Financial Services Committee, which also has jurisdiction over the authorizations around the National Flood Insurance Program. And a lot of people don't know that the maps for the NFIP and what is considered a flood zone or not are tied to flood maps from before the federal government even acknowledged that climate change is real. And so we are allocating flood insurance from before these areas became flood zones that are now flood zones. And so historically there's been a great deal of Republican resistance to updating these maps. My hope is that we can do that now.
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Host
Meanwhile, Donald Trump and the the other Oompa Loompas were at a SpaceX event with the co president Elon Musk. I mean, just take a look. This is what MAGA Republican Congress members were doing. Marjorie Taylor Greene stayed back in Washington D.C. and here she talks about doing a purge and she talks about a purge coming to Washington DC. Here, listen to this. Let's play it.
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Lauren Boebert
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. While Democrats are complaining about this lengthy hearing and about President Trump coming in and slashing and reducing the size of government, I just want to say let the purge begin. Because there's people that are homeless right now in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, and it's not. Misinformation is not the most dangerous thing facing us. It's right now, pretty much the federal government and the failure to the American people.
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Host
Our friend of the show, Raja Krishnamoorthy from Illinois here he talks about again, more debunking of all of the MAGA lies. He's great. In these committee hearings, Congressmember Christian Moorthy. Play this clip. Good.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
It's an atmospheric research facility in Alaska that believe it or not, conspiracy theorists alleges a mind controlling weather machine. And one of the conspiracy theories out there is that somehow FEMA controls the weather. And I assume that you as the administrator do not control the weather, right?
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FEMA Administrator
I do not control the weather.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
And you don't use secret machines that control hurricanes to target certain places in the United States, right?
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FEMA Administrator
Correct.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
And you and your team did not direct severe weather at North Carolina to quote unquote, commandeer lithium mine property in that state, Right.
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FEMA Administrator
Why would anybody want to bring harm to the American people?
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
And you would not direct severe weather to target anyone of a particular political party, right?
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FEMA Administrator
Never.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
You're not establishing FEMA camps to detain individuals or enact martial law, right?
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FEMA Administrator
Correct.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
These are all conspiracy theories that you've had to deal with.
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Host
Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Burleson and he talks about how he's excited for Elon Musk to work in a fake agency called Dogecoin because he says that Washington D.C. needs an enema. An enema they say. So everybody, all the federal employees will get enemas from Elon Musk and a fake agency called doge. Play this clip and I can't wait.
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Burleson
For doge, the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Host
To get in under the next administration and start making this government work more efficiently.
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Burleson
Because this town does need a purge. This town needs an enema.
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Host
And honestly, I can't wait. Democratic Congresswoman Stansberry, she's from the great state of New Mexico. Here she talks about something that should be a very basic principle, which is that we should not use people as props and pawns in political games, that the goal of emergency relief is to provide emergency relief and not do what Trump and the Magas want to do. Play this clip.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And absolutely under no condition should politics be the reason why someone is denied basic dignity, access to emergency resources and comity by our colleagues, whether that's emergency aid in their homes or access to the bathroom here in the Capitol.
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Host
Oh, and then we have Lauren Boebert right here questioning the FEMA administrator. Take a watch at so pathetic. Play this clip.
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Lauren Boebert
So when Elon Musk is furious that he can't get Starlink delivered to folks, when I have Congressman Corey Mills who has to deploy a mission team to bring 26 systems of Starlink to those who are suffering, when the missing persons list is 1500 people before Starlink is brought to them by a sitting member of Congress, not by FEMA, and that number goes down to 600 once communication is able to begin, when a member of Congress has to bring 23,000 pounds of supplies, when Elon Musk is saying we want to get Internet, we want to get connectivity and communication to citizens, we want to bring supplies. And yet FEMA is blocking supplies. FEMA is seizing supplies. When I have a senior high school student from Rifle, Colorado, Cody Wyatt, who is driving across country to get supplies because FEMA hasn't been seen in 11 days in North Carolina or in Pensacola, Florida, when they aren't present. Can citizens help? Or is FEMA going to continue to block private citizens and refuse to help those based on their political affiliation?
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FEMA Administrator
FEMA has never blocked any assistance from moving around any of the states that were impacted. In fact, when Mr. Musk released that statement, we had over 70 Starlink satellite terminals in and around North Carolina exceeding.
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Lauren Boebert
What he For 11 days, Congressman Corey Mills did not see a single FEMA representative or truck. And I have witnesses as well in Florida who did not see any help from FEMA for days.
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FEMA Administrator
I would like their ground before the disaster started. We'll see. You can read in my testimony.
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Lauren Boebert
We'll see in your investigation if it's.
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FEMA Administrator
Ever released in my testimony, my written testimony that shows our exact response. You can read the details there.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
Before.
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Host
I recognize Mr. Burris and rank member. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, you have Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, saying that the Senate is not going to forfeit their advice of their advice and consent function whereby they hold hearings regarding Donald Trump's nominees. In other words, that it's not just that they're at least she's not just going to let Donald Trump do recess appointees. Here. Play this clip.
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FEMA Administrator
I would like to see our committees.
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Host
Do their full job.
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Lauren Boebert
I don't, I'm not interested in a process that would just say, well, because.
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FEMA Administrator
The president has named him and you.
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Lauren Boebert
Have Republican chairs coming into the new Congress, we just move people out. There needs to be legitimate vetting. When I say legitimate, I mean just.
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FEMA Administrator
Thorough vetting that the committees do.
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Host
This is our job. But don't, I'm going to do a whole other video on this one right here. But the MAGA Republicans, led by Nancy May, spent most of the last 48 hours attacking their colleagues. Congresswoman McBride, she's from the at large district in Delaware. Congresswoman McBride is the first trans woman in Congress. So naturally, the MAGA Republicans want to bully Congresswoman McBride and make her work environment just entirely impossible. That's how the MAGA Republicans are spending their time, bullying a colleague and a coworker. Play this clip.
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Raja Krishnamoorthy
One thing I know the left will.
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Burleson
Say in response to what you just said is, well, it's horrific that you were subjected to any abuse or assault, any of it. But are you intimating that this new congressman elect would somehow assault you in the bathroom?
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Host
That would be the argument.
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Sarah McBride
The idea of a man walking into a locker room where I'm changing is actually, it feels like assault. I'm a victim. I have actually, I actually, I have PTSD from the trauma that I have endured at the hands of a man. And I absolutely, I'm going to stand in the way solidly of any guy that wants to come into our spaces. And guess what? Sarah McBride doesn't get a say in this. And I'm not going to, I'm not going to succumb or be silenced by bullies online or by the radical left. They lost. They lost big. And I'm going to push back harder than ever before.
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Host
It should be noted that you see how flimsy any type of like, strain of logic is with these maggots. When Trump was in office, their policy at first was transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want was actually what Trump said then. But now that Trump and the Magaz view bullying the trans community as a winning issue. All in on bullying human beings and treating the trans community without basic self respect and mockery and just horrific stuff that you, that we've been hearing, MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina says the he's asked about Matt Gaetz's allegations. And you know, we know that there's this very credible ethics report with very specifics about the allegations of Matt Gaetz sex trafficking children. And for Lindsey Graham, though, like many MAGA Republicans, it' that's just media reports. You can't listen to everything you hear on the media. That's where Lindsey Graham is going with play this clip.
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Lindsey Graham
These serious allegations involving sexual misconduct of Matt Gaetz, including sex with someone who's underage. Is he qualified to be Attorney General?
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Lauren Boebert
Nobody should be disqualified because of a media report.
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Host
I've already talked to him. I mean, he just said, listen, he wants a shot to be able to lay out his vision for the department and also to respond to these various allegations. And you know, I said, hey, the confirmation hearing is the place and chance to do that.
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Lindsey Graham
And that last comment coming from Senator Josh Hawley, who spoke to Matt Gates last week. Gates himself also called Lindsey Graham to try to talk to him as well. An effort trying to consolidate Republican support, which is soft at the moment. And tomorrow Jake Gates, along with vice president elected J.D. vance, will be on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican senators, including Senator John Kennedy, who sits on that key Senate Judiciary Committee. All an effort to guide to get Republicans to fall in line, even as a number of Republicans are concerned about this nomination.
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Host
Manu could we just say in very clear terms, folks, that right now, before our eyes, the MAGA Republicans are doing everything they can to cover up child sex trafficking allegations against someone who Donald Trump appointed nominated to be Attorney General. Like one of the things that we should learn. Repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. You know, it's great to have great policies that help people, but you got to repeat this stuff over and over again. You got to say it in terms that people understand. You just got to say it. The MAGA Republicans are covering up a sex trafficking allegation against someone who's being nominated to be Attorney General. Sex trafficking, bad. Sex trafficking, children. You just have to keep on saying that. That's what they're doing. Republicans support the sex trafficking of children, then if they're okay with this, that's what Republicans support. Republicans support it. Got to repeat it over and over and over again. That's just the way it works. Repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. Speaking of these hearings, here's Congress member Jared Moskowitz right here. And I know there's been a lot of people saying, you know, Congressmember Moskowitz has been, you know, making some comments about Elise Stefanik and others and what's going on there? I'll just say this. You know, Congressmember Moskowitz, I think still at these hearings is going to be an important, a very, very, very important asset at these hearings. And you know, he's from Florida, so in a district that's a swingy type district. But you know, he's an advocate on these hearings for pro democracy. He really is like this was him yesterday. This is just an example. I just think we need more of this right now. Here, play this clip.
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Burleson
And so I do want to say one more thing because I think it's tremendously important for my colleagues across the aisle and my Democratic colleagues. It is so important that we don't allow FEMA to become politicized and that we don't allow disaster aid to become politicized. Laser beams do not start fires in California. We cannot guide where hurricanes go. And you know what? You know who's amplifying that stuff? Foreign accounts. Other countries are amplifying that stuff on social media to divide us, to divide Democrats and Republicans. They want us fighting over disaster aid because it helps their goal. We can't participate in that. We shouldn't amplify that.
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Host
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