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Buckle up for this one, folks.
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Our country is under siege.
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That's right.
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The experiment known as MAGA is dead and yet they will not go down without a fight.
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Donald Trump has profited billions of dollars while president
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and he is now threatening investigations at the oversight committee whose job is to investigate the president.
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The president doesn't get to choose which investigations are valid.
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That's not how checks and balances work.
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I've got all of the updates on this insane story.
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My name's Dave Neal, host here of the Rush Hour podcast,
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and I'm going to show you how compromised the White House is in all of the tentacles that it goes down to,
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including the Department of Warhead Pete Hegseth.
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A total betrayal has just happened.
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We covered it in the last video.
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Pete Hegseth got let off the hook when it comes to the impeachment because 11
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Democrats didn't show up.
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So I'm going to share with you guys what the president is saying with regards to his threats, why we're getting just, I mean,
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absolutely heroic responses from the oversight
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Democrats literally saying, come at me, bro.
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Really?
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You're going to threaten us?
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Well, you better lawyer up.
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We've got all of this and more happening right now.
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But check this out.
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Here we have
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Representative Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada, explaining why he missed the vote to impeach Pete Hegseth.
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And again, it's all dog ate my homework nonsense.
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I would have voted no on the Republican motion to refer
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so that the House could proceed to a vote on Secretary Hegseth's impeachment.
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I would have voted no, but I couldn't have.
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And of course, he took a quarter million dollars from pro -Israel PACs.
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Now, again, the pro -Israel PACs are not allowing these compromised
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Democrats to vote to impeach the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth because they're all in on it.
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They're all in on the war machine.
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The US is fighting a war on behalf of Israel and Iran.
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It's ridiculous.
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And this is like their last dying stand
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that they have to try to keep that war going so
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that we can protect a foreign country from business they're starting and that they're embroiled in.
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It's so insanely corrupt.
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And that's not even what this video is about.
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This video is about the insanity of the president threatening the oversight.
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So Trump tweeted this a couple days ago, and it only gets worse.
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The Democrats are going around threatening a lot of people, including the attorney general of the United States and others,
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with impeachment and many other forms of punishment, even though they admit they have no reason to do so.
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So the president's calling oversight threats.
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Oh, they're coming after me.
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Yeah, no duh.
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You've made billions of dollars.
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You've done government contracts to companies that literally came out of nowhere that your sons are invested in.
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I mean, literally, mines in Kazakhstan.
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Don Jr. knows all about mines in Kazakhstan.
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The war machine, the money he's going to make with Jared Kushner in New Gaza.
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They're bulldozing the lives of all of these deceased, the people that literally had a genocide committed against them so
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that they can rise up a couple skyrises and have beachfront property.
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The crimes are there.
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It's not like they're kicking the tire this isn't a fishing expedition.
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The crimes of the president are there.
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Here we have the Republicans going down with the ship.
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They are so upset that the will of the people was met a week ago.
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A generational revolution from sea to shining sea.
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The blue tsunami swept from coast to coast and now they say, well, you better get it out of your system.
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We're coming for all of you.
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We lost last Tuesday and I take it personally as do my colleagues.
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I fought for these seats as the NRCC chair and work like hell to keep them as the majority whip.
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We're going to do it again.
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Over the next two years, we will regain the trust and confidence of the American people so we can build back our majority in 2028.
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And we'll gain the confidence of the American people by holding these crooks accountable.
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Now, he's got Jim Jordan next to him, who's been part of that, I think it was Ohio State or is it
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Michigan, I don't even know, scandal where he helped allegedly cover up a ton of crimes that were happening.
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And again, Jim Jordan, who's standing next to him there, has been a politician for several decades.
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He's never got one bill passed.
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He's literally done nothing.
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He's a barnacle on the ship of progress.
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This idea that the Republicans are going to gain support over the next few years, the insurgency is happening on the left.
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The insurgency is happening because we're looking at our own leadership
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and calling them out for the money they're taking from foreign countries in order to dodge, have medical emergencies.
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My car broke down.
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My dog ate my homework.
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I got long COVID.
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I took the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and I had a stroke.
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Who the hell knows what they're trying to do?
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But it's rubbish.
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We're not buying it.
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And the Republicans aren't digging themselves out of this one.
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To our colleagues on the left.
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Enjoy this honeymoon phase.
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We will.
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Because come January 3rd, 2027, you will regret ever putting your name on a ballot.
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House Republicans will hold each and every Democrat.
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So these aren't threats?
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You know what I mean?
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All we've got is the oversight committee saying, hey, we want to investigate the billions of dollars
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Trump made in crypto scams and all of that nonsense.
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They blew some fishermen out of the water.
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Several hundred are dead schoolgirls in Iran.
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We just want to investigate that.
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You'll rue the day you ever try to hold accountability.
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Shut the hell up, bitch.
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Republicans will hold each and every
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Democrat accountable for every vote cast, every committee hearing held, and every sentence set on MSDNC.
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This Republican leadership team will expose the Democrats' lies
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and show the American people their true colors as the radical communists that they are.
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Now, I don't know if I want to give
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Representative Emmer here enough credit.
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It just feels like he's reading what
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Trump made him say.
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The DNC, MSB, LBGQ +, what the hell?
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They're losing their fastball.
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This is the party that's losing power.
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They've got no power.
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You'll rue the day.
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Shut the hell up, you old bastard.
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We will expose every empty promise that they made to voters.
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We lost last Tuesday.
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We lost last Tuesday, and we're going to hold you accountable.
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All right, sure.
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Bring that back to your constituents.
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What a loser.
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Insane.
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Sending this letter just says they're doing illegal shit and don't want it investigated.
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Let the subpoenas fly in January.
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Yeah, I want that country song.
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Let subpoenas fly.
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Let them fly.
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Like bald eagle.
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I want a subpoena biting.
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I want a bald eagle biting a subpoena.
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Just dropping it off.
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And then they shit on Mike Johnson on the way out.
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Dear Congressman Garcia, this is from Donald Trump's lawyers.
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I want to remind you of the foundational limits that the Constitution imposes on congressional investigations and subpoenas, which you and members of the new
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Congress have evinced a clear intent to transgress.
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That's using AI.
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Make me sound smart, Grock.
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The Supreme Court has held that investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators
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or to punish those investigated are indefensible.
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No, you punish people that commit crimes.
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They've lost the plot here
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Literally everybody knows
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Everybody that was on the left
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From Candace Owens to Megyn Kelly to Scaramucci They all understand
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Trump is committing crimes
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These are crimes
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He will be punished
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His family will be punished
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We are monitoring the abusive and capricious threats
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That are now proliferating from Democratic legislators
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Who seek to abuse the legislative process
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So again, it just sounds like someone who's writing a report in high school
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and they just need to have filler words to sound smart.
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Representative -elect Ojeda wants to see
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Secretary Hegseth squirm.
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Who cares whether he squirms or not?
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You know what I mean?
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Accountability is all that matters.
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While Representative -elect Padilla Stout told witnesses to put makeup on for the cameras at the hearings.
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Again, who cares?
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You know, Pete Hegseth literally put together a makeup station at the Oval Office.
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They better use it you want to look good when you're getting cuffed and walked into jail.
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Others have made clear that their motive is to pave the way for witnesses to be prosecuted by state or federal authorities.
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And again, they're trying to use the lawyer up sort of propaganda as a, like that they're weaponizing this retribution.
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They're not weaponizing.
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They're telling you to lawyer up because you're going to need a lawyer for all the crimes you committed that
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Republicans weren't holding you accountable for.
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When you launched your lawyer up campaign, you prominently featured an image of a courtroom gavel set to the tune of a song called The End.
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You have repeatedly accused the president and administration officials of criminal activity
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and have openly touted
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that you are in contact with state attorneys generals to get
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information using the House Oversight Committee for the purpose of taking administrative officials through, hold on, through the court system for prosecution.
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Yeah, that's how it works.
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You commit crimes, you get investigated, You get charged.
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You get the consequences of your action.
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They finish.
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The Trump administration expects members of Congress to discharge their investigative functions within settled constitutional limits.
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The administration will not be extorted and will not be cowed by unlawful process motivated by animus, pettiness, hatred, or any other unlawful motive to intimidate,
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penalize, or interfere with the lawful functioning of government.
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You know, I get accused of having
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Trump derangement syndrome.
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And, you know, it's really not the case.
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I don't hate the man.
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you know, whatever you can, I don't care about the man.
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It's the policies.
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It is what he has done that I have a problem with.
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So as far as things being unlawful, being motivated by animus or pettiness, there is nobody who's been more petty.
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then the president of the United States.
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He literally created a wall of portraits all to make fun of Joe Biden.
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And rather than put
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Biden's photo up, he has a photo of an auto pen.
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You know, nobody is more petty than Donald Trump.
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This isn't pettiness.
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This is called consequence.
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You know, so many of us can't go back to our families on Thanksgiving
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and look each other in the eye because we see family members that fell into this MAGA spell, that drank the MAGA Kool -Aid,
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that have these crazy conspiracies.
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Oh, the rapture's coming, so we have to...
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Shut the hell up.
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Trump divided us because that's all he knows how to do, divide and conquer.
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And now we are duct taping this constitution back together at the very least by investigating
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and getting on the record all of the Trump crime family and everybody around it, from Elon Musk to Pam Bondi, from C to Shining C.
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You will be investigated that's what our tax dollars will go to we will also bring back affordability end wars
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and all of these other things we're going to get universal health care
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while also having Jared Kushner answer for the billions of dollars he took from the Saudi government money
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that he washed through a bank in Azerbaijan that has been all
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but proved by spies in Russia that colluded with the Dutch spies they released this
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and if there's no truth to it then
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that will come out in court but all of the evidence is pointing to crimes being committed,
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not a phishing expedition, not a let's get into your iCloud and then find the crimes.
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The crimes exist.
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You accidentally put journalists in a signal chat.
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You're not supposed to be doing government activities like war on a signal chat.
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There has to be accountability.
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Ranking member Robert Garcia released a statement on new
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White House Council threats.
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All right, so I've got the response by Robert Garcia.
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I've also got what I believe to be is going to be the clip of the day,
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which is Representative Stephen Lynch from South Boston, a .k .a.
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Southie Kid.
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He goes all Boston.
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Let me tell you something.
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There's two Bostons.
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There's the side working for the government, and then there's the mob side, you know, the Whitey Bulger kid.
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And this is the government coming after Trump.
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Maybe there's a little
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Boston versus New York energy happening.
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But when I share that beautiful chef's kicks accent, that depotted, kind of like, dude, you better get in line, kid, because we're coming after you.
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I'm the chairman for a reason, son.
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When I get to this, you're going to enjoy the energy and vigor that they're presenting.
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But first, Robert Garcia, ranking member, his response.
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Today, Representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight in Government Reform,
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released the following statement after the White House sent a letter to oversight
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Democrats threatening to infringe upon the committee's constitutionally protected right to conduct congressional oversight.
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It appears Donald Trump has something to hide.
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Let's be clear, Congress authority comes from Article 1 of the Constitution, not from the permission of the White House.
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Congress has wide latitude to conduct investigations and oversight and authority inherent in the power to legislate.
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The American people voted unanimously for us to pass laws to root out corruption and abuse.
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The Trump administration continues to weaponize the government with threats of unconstitutional attacks on Congress.
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We are a co -equal branch of government.
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It will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the president's lawyers.
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It's my guess that the president's trying to make a constitutional crisis out of this.
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He's hoping he'll get bailed out by the Supreme Court, which is heavily leaning in his favor.
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Although the Supreme Court has shown their ability to turn on Trump.
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They have.
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Maybe it was politically convenient, although it's the Supreme Court's not supposed to be political, but of course everything is now.
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Maybe it was politically convenient to side with Trump on certain issues, but they have held up the fort in times of need.
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Trump's about to die.
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He's an old man.
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Some of these folks on the Supreme Court will be around for decades.
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Do they really want to destroy democracy?
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My guess is no. these
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investigations will go on uh so and
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and the only question is is trump like anything else like
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with the epstein files is he trying to kick the can down the road long enough
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that he just avoids accountability here's representative stephen lynch again from southey kid telling us uh dude uh
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we're gonna keep on with these investigations if what i'm reading
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if this is a if this letter if this new
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if this position from the white house is now meaning
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that the administration may go after
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you you all democrats who are conducting investigations in the new congress what do you do about that
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well come at me bro you know i just think we are
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so well uh situated come at me do our jobs what
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what they're saying is don't do your jobs don't do oversight don't check on the administration of the government obviously
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we pass laws and and the president habitually
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violates those laws so we believe we have the the right
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and we have been empowered expressly in the Constitution to make sure
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that the president obeys the law this is you want to do a good
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Boston accent you turn an o into an aw we're doing a job kid
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and then yeah and then you hit
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that T really hard I'm the chair of the oversight what are you talking like the basic and
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so bad accent that's the core function the oversight committee is the primary investigative committee in the house of representatives
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and we we are going to do our jobs i and i
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and i speak on behalf of of the chairman in this respect as well
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i am sure we're going to do our job
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and you can't stop us uh
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and we're going to take you to southey going to make you eat a bowl of clam chowder
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and we're going to hold you accountable for all the crimes
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you committed you dirty bastard all right you love to see it that's what they're doing
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so uh you know we got to support the folks
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that keep the channel thriving you know what i mean i do
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and i do have to tell you i did turn down what would have been a twenty thousand
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I'm not saying this out of a point of pride.
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It was a sad day, but I turned down the gambling money, 20 grand.
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I turned down the AI money.
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That's right.
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Grok, literally, they were like, can we have Grok advertised on your channel?
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And I was like, I don't think so.
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Our president is literally being investigated for using
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Twitter's AI in order to run a war.
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Like, again, I'm not telling anyone to commit violent acts, but if people started blowing up data centers, I'm looking my other way.
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I'm like, what, what, what was that?
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A data center blew up?
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Well, I got to go do some laundry.
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I mean, I like, it's one of those things.
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We all use AI, like it's fine, whatever, but like we could all go without it.
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And we're, and again, I just say that because do the investigations, end the wars and maybe blow up a data center.
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I'm not telling you to do that.
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I'm not going to investigate you if that happens.
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Am I allowed to say that?
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We'll talk to you guys later.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Trump IS GUILTY AS HELL! He Can’t Stop This From Happening”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: trump, oversight, crime. This video has 320 sentences and 3266 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:08. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| oversight noun | /ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/ | An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten. |
| investigate verb | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information. |
| threaten verb | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | To make a threat against someone; to use threats. |
| accountable adjective | /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/ | Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable. |
| commit verb | /kəˈmɪt/ | To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. |
| punish verb | /ˈpʌnɪʃ/ | To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action… |
| accountability noun | /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ | The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for… |
| rank noun | /ˈɹæŋk/ | A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| sponsor noun | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or… |
| unlawful adjective | Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal) | |
| impeachment noun | /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/ | The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something. |
| behalf noun | /bɪˈhæf/ | The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| makeup noun | /ˈmeɪkʌp/ | An item's composition. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| turn down verb | To refuse, decline, or deny. | |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. | |
| bail out verb | To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money. | |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| bring back verb | /ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/ | To fetch something. |
| come out in verb | to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body) | |
| cover up verb | To conceal or disguise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You're going to threaten us?
- I would have voted no, but I couldn't have.
- You know what I mean?
- I'm like, what, what, what was that?
- Am I allowed to say that?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has profited · has just happened · You've made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are invested · was met · will be punished |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 90 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, ethical /ˈɛθɪkəl/, thrive /θɹajv/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, constitutional /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/, shine /ʃaɪn/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, accountability /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/, constitutional /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like oversight, investigate, threaten.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.