Interviewer (7:57)

So on Ukraine a year plus ago, your advice, the president's advice was Ukraine had no cards to play. They should go cut the best possible deal they could. Clearly, that was wrong. What did you miss? What did you miss about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that you didn't see that Ukraine was going to be capable of doing? What they've done in the last 14

Pete Hegseth (8:18)

months, what we didn't miss, and we're here in this committee, is that Joe Biden, with no accountability, gave hundreds of billions of dollars of our weapons to Ukraine to an outcome that never would have happened if President Trump was present. So he pulled out our. You guys don't talk about that. Ultimately, President Trump believes there's a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Interviewer (8:37)

But you didn't expect Ukraine to be where they're at right now. I'm asking you, just from a strategic

Pete Hegseth (8:41)

standpoint, I think the Ukrainians have shown great courage and I appreciate that Europe is now paying for the weapons, any weapons that we provide.

Interviewer (8:49)

All right, I yield back. Thank you.

Pete Hegseth (8:51)

All right, now I want to revive.

Political Commentator (8:53)

And then you can see over here, Hegseth tries to pull that line, he always does on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, when being cross examined by Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith. And he's like, I want to be clear. We obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities last June. So Adam Smith, Democratic Congressmember Smith's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, so if it was obliterated, then why did you say it posed an imminent threat? And then Hegseth's all like all over the place. And he's like the fast talking liar type, right? Fast talking liars. He's like, well, they had ambitions. They had ambitions. Like North Korea. Like North Korea. You want to bring up North Korea as example. Yeah. Donald Trump exchanged love letters with the guy and then allowed the guy to get nuclear weapons. Great example. Hegseth here, play this clip.

Pete Hegseth (9:44)

Who's hell bent on getting a nuclear weapon. And get them to a point where they're at the table giving it up in a way that. So they haven't have it.

Interviewer (9:51)

So they haven't broken yet. Okay. We haven't gotten there yet for all of the.

Pete Hegseth (9:56)

Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated underground. They're buried and watching 24 7. So we know where any nuclear material.

Interviewer (10:04)

Reclaiming my time. We're watching a second here. We had to start this war, you just said 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely

Pete Hegseth (10:18)

obliterated, not given up their nuclear weapons ambitions. And they had a conventional shield of thousands of.

Interviewer (10:24)

So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance.

Pete Hegseth (10:27)

It left us at exactly the same

Interviewer (10:29)

place we were before.

Pete Hegseth (10:31)

So much so their facilities are bombed and obliterated. Their. Their ambitions continued and they're building a conventional shield.

Interviewer (10:38)

Let me try again.

Pete Hegseth (10:39)

It's The North Korea strategy. You know this very well. The North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody from challenging them so they could slow walk their way to a weapon. President Trump saw Iran at its weakest moment, took an action to ensure in a way that only the United States of America could do with our Israeli partners. And yet to ensure they'll have an option shield was was brought up. One of the questions we've done, if

Interviewer (11:02)

I could get to it.

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Political Commentator (12:18)

Also, Hegseth was protested when he was showing up. Let's just show you a brief clip of the protest when Hegseth was arriving to that hearing today in the House of Representatives. Let's play this clip.

Pete Hegseth (12:29)

You should be disgusted with yourself.

Political Commentator (12:33)

You need to be arrested.

Pete Hegseth (12:35)

Why did you order the body?

Political Commentator (12:40)

And more bad news for the Trump regime on Capitol Hill as well. Democrats forced Pam Bondi to testify before the House Oversight Committee. As you know, she was required to testify last month via a bipartisan subpoena. She just refused to show up. And she said, well, I'm not the attorney General anymore, so I don't need to show up and testify to anything. Well, Democrats issued contempt charges earlier today against Pam Bondi. Democrats wrote the following. Pam Bondi has illegally defied our committee, skipped her deposition and refused to cooperate. Today we have filed contempt charges. And then Democratic Congress member Garcia issued a statement regarding the contempt charges. And then Republicans responded.

Interviewer (13:27)

Boom.

Political Commentator (13:28)

Within 15, 20 minutes. The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee then write, this is all theater and completely unnecessary. They were happy giving the Clintons a free pass for months. We have secured Bondi's appearance for May 29. Today we're marking up legislation to tackle fraud and federal level. At the federal level. And all Democrats can talk about is Epstein. In other words, Republicans are like, stop talking about Epstein. And they bring up the Clintons, the Clintons, the Bidens people. Pam Bondi is literally the person involved in the COVID up, okay? Not the Clintons. Hillary Clinton's not even in any email. No even met the guy, okay? Pam Bondi is the person. If you don't see the distinction there and you just think you're gonna go Clintons, Biden, Obama. It's why people hate politics. We just want you to stop covering up a child sex trafficking ring, please. We just want you to be normal and not post photos of yourself with AR15 style RIF and say, no more Mr. Nice Guy like it's some horrific Rambo movie. But we're all non consensual extras in this dystopian reality TV show. We just want to be able to afford our rent and buy groceries and live normal lives with our families and live in peace without you Trump MAGA maniacs treading on all of us. That's it. It's just that. It's just that simple. Right there. 45 minutes after the contempt charges, Pam Bondi gives a date. I want to give a shout out also to Governor Gavin Newsom mocking Donald Trump mercilessly and perfectly. You know that Donald Trump, in addition to putting his face all over the national park passes. Well, Donald Trump wants to do that on the newly issued passports. Trump's face on passports coming soon. That's what the State Department is pushing. So California Governor Gavin Newsom posted this that all new California driver's license will have Newsom's face on it. In honor of California's 175th anniversary, will be rolling out a very special driver's license for every Californian this summer. It will feature a handsome, high quality photo of me, Gavin C. Newsom. Many people are saying it's the best license ever made in the history of the United States. So with the American people Absolutely livid at this Trump regime. What does the Trump regime need to do? Cheat. They need to work with their fascist right wing Supreme Court sycophants. That six to three right wing Supreme Court majority. I'll do a longer video on this as well where I'll break down the ruling for all of you. But the Supreme Court issued a very bad ruling today in the case Louisiana vs. And in a 6 to 3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map that added a second majority black district, ruling it unconstitutional as a racial gerrymander. The opinion, the opinion written by right wing, fascist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, narrows how the Voting Right act is interpreted moving forward. It basically guts all of section 2 in the voting Rights act, which prohibits discrimination in doing gerrymandering. And what the Supreme Court essentially says in its ruling is that we've moved past racism, that racism really isn't a thing anymore. So by having even a consideration of black populations, for example, in a district in order to avoid racism, you are actually being racist by ensuring that black votes are not diluted by saying we need to create a majority black congressional district. What the Supreme Court saying that's a racist thing. By protecting black people who suffered from segregation and who suffered from slavery in the past and who suffer racism right now, that even making those considerations is racist. And so what states should be able to do is just call their racist gerrymandering political gerrymandering. And if you counter it and say, no, no, no, you're being racist by just calling it political gerrymandering, but you're diluting all of the black vote, the Supreme Court says, no, no, no, you're the racist for saying that they should not be able to politically gerrymander to dilute black voting. That's basically the ruling in a nutshell. So what this is gonna encourage all states to do is draw the most racist maps imaginable and just say political, political, and then they're gonna cite this case. So we'll keep you posted every step of the way. I'll do a longer take on it to really break it down. Of course, legal AF will do some good takes on it as well to let you know the implications. But this is what the Trump regime does. They're losers. And when they're backed into a corner, they, they rush to their right wing Supreme Court justices for help. They have a very dark, fascist, disgusting vision for this country that you see right now. We could either live in a loving, empathetic, supportive place, or you can live in this MAGA hellhole. It's really, you know, to me, it's really, it's really a basic, it's really a basic thing where I don't want to wake up in the morning to see the President of the United states posting weird AI memes of himself with AR15 style rifles and AI images of a country being blown up after war crimes were committed in said country against little elementary school girls. Okay, I don't want to see that. I don't want to wake up to that in the morning in my country, in these United States of America. You tell me how you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks everybody for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available@midasplus.com.