1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,750 --> 00:00:07,834 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:08,709 --> 00:00:10,375 The only thing worse in politics than being wrong, 5 00:00:10,458 --> 00:00:11,417 is being boring. 6 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:13,208 I'm not sick of winning yet. 7 00:00:13,875 --> 00:00:15,333 And we're crying out as a nation. 8 00:00:17,750 --> 00:00:20,375 ♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪ 9 00:00:20,458 --> 00:00:21,750 Thank you for having me. 10 00:00:22,750 --> 00:00:24,834 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 11 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:46,125 (dramatic, patriotic music playing) 12 00:00:52,750 --> 00:00:54,792 Narrator 1: The Capitol is the very heart 13 00:00:54,875 --> 00:00:57,250 of our system of representative government. 14 00:00:57,333 --> 00:00:59,458 Members of the House of Representatives 15 00:00:59,542 --> 00:01:02,125 are elected for short terms: two years. 16 00:01:02,208 --> 00:01:04,667 But since they have to come up for reelection so often, 17 00:01:04,750 --> 00:01:08,667 they must constantly be responsive to the wishes of the voters. 18 00:01:08,750 --> 00:01:11,917 Narrator 2: The American people are very proud of their government, 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,125 for it is a republic. 20 00:01:14,208 --> 00:01:16,709 This means a form of democratic government 21 00:01:16,792 --> 00:01:19,500 where the people are the rules of their l--- 22 00:01:19,583 --> 00:01:21,125 (TV clicks off) 23 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:27,166 Woman: It's day eight of the government shutdown, 24 00:01:27,250 --> 00:01:29,417 and neither side is willing to budge. 25 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:30,792 Man: Discussions have broken down. 26 00:01:30,875 --> 00:01:32,417 We do expect this to go on for a while. 27 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,709 Matt Gaetz: We are in, uh, what used to be a work closet 28 00:01:35,792 --> 00:01:38,250 for the former Congressman that had this office. 29 00:01:38,333 --> 00:01:40,667 Of the 435 members of Congress, 30 00:01:40,750 --> 00:01:43,750 more than 100 actually live in the building. 31 00:01:43,834 --> 00:01:46,083 For some people, it's an economic decision. 32 00:01:46,166 --> 00:01:49,208 For me, frankly, it's just that, I like being at work, 33 00:01:49,291 --> 00:01:50,625 and, uh, it gives me 34 00:01:50,709 --> 00:01:53,083 the maximum opportunity to get the most out of every day. 35 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:59,250 Gotta get the makeup on first thing in the morning. Got a lot of... hits. 36 00:01:59,333 --> 00:02:02,417 We usually do our TV in the morning from here in the Capitol, 37 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,625 and there's no Fox News makeup lady, so... 38 00:02:06,709 --> 00:02:08,875 you gotta contour the sides. 39 00:02:11,041 --> 00:02:14,166 Got my, uh, weight loss chart here. 40 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:17,583 My mother joked that the camera added 10 pounds, 41 00:02:17,667 --> 00:02:20,208 so I needed to drop a few. 42 00:02:20,291 --> 00:02:22,709 All right, this is the critical choice of the day, here. 43 00:02:22,792 --> 00:02:24,417 The tie selection. 44 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,542 Gotta figure out what shoes go with 45 00:02:26,625 --> 00:02:28,250 purple and pewter. 46 00:02:28,333 --> 00:02:29,291 (chuckles) 47 00:02:29,375 --> 00:02:31,458 These are Ivanka's favorite. 48 00:02:31,542 --> 00:02:34,959 She was telling me she liked my shoes. 49 00:02:35,041 --> 00:02:36,959 I wore 'em to the White House. 50 00:02:37,041 --> 00:02:39,125 ♪ 51 00:02:39,208 --> 00:02:41,792 When a Congressional seat came open, 52 00:02:41,875 --> 00:02:44,458 I'd really started to think about 53 00:02:44,542 --> 00:02:47,166 what this country would be like in a Donald Trump Presidency, 54 00:02:47,250 --> 00:02:50,375 and I knew that it would not be like anything we'd experienced before 55 00:02:50,458 --> 00:02:52,500 with any other type of Republican or Democrat. 56 00:02:52,583 --> 00:02:54,917 I thought, this guy's got some rough edges. 57 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,792 He is very uncharacteristic as a politician, 58 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:02,000 but I felt like he was exactly the type of person 59 00:03:02,083 --> 00:03:04,875 that could bring the fight to a town that badly needed it. 60 00:03:04,959 --> 00:03:06,834 That could be a change agent. 61 00:03:06,917 --> 00:03:09,166 And if I could be there, and be of assistance, 62 00:03:09,250 --> 00:03:12,583 then I could contribute to that change in a positive way. 63 00:03:14,083 --> 00:03:15,917 Newscaster 1: Nine percent of Americans 64 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,667 approve of the job Congress is doing. 65 00:03:17,750 --> 00:03:19,166 That's the lowest in our history. 66 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:20,500 Newscaster 2: All you see is gridlock. 67 00:03:20,583 --> 00:03:21,834 No one can agree on anything. 68 00:03:21,917 --> 00:03:23,417 Newscaster 3: Congress is less popular 69 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:24,834 than a colonoscopy. 70 00:03:24,917 --> 00:03:26,417 Man 4: The American people know that Congress 71 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:27,875 is broken. And it is broken. 72 00:03:27,959 --> 00:03:29,709 Woman: I believe the voting system is corrupt. 73 00:03:29,792 --> 00:03:31,333 I believe the politicians are corrupt. 74 00:03:31,417 --> 00:03:33,000 I believe the Congress is corrupt. 75 00:03:33,083 --> 00:03:34,959 Man 6: Each and every piece of legislation 76 00:03:35,041 --> 00:03:36,875 virtually has its own price tag on it. 77 00:03:36,959 --> 00:03:41,375 Elizabeth Warren: Giant corporations have bought off our government. 78 00:03:41,458 --> 00:03:43,750 Bernie Sanders: The American political system 79 00:03:43,834 --> 00:03:46,375 has become totally corrupted, 80 00:03:46,458 --> 00:03:49,625 and the foundations of American democracy 81 00:03:49,709 --> 00:03:51,250 are being undermined. 82 00:03:51,333 --> 00:03:54,542 Donald Trump: The unholy alliance of lobbyists and donors 83 00:03:54,625 --> 00:03:58,709 and special interests is bleeding our country dry. 84 00:03:58,792 --> 00:04:00,333 Man: Trump is different because 85 00:04:00,417 --> 00:04:02,709 he doesn't have to answer to any donors, 86 00:04:02,792 --> 00:04:04,333 and the lobbyists. 87 00:04:04,417 --> 00:04:09,250 It's time to drain the swamp in Washington, DC. 88 00:04:09,333 --> 00:04:12,208 We are going to drain the swamp... 89 00:04:12,291 --> 00:04:14,750 It's time to drain the swamp of corruption... 90 00:04:14,834 --> 00:04:17,250 We're gonna drain the swamp of Washington... 91 00:04:17,333 --> 00:04:20,166 We're gonna have fun doing it, and we're all doing it together. 92 00:04:21,125 --> 00:04:23,792 Crowd (chanting): Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! 93 00:04:23,875 --> 00:04:27,000 Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! 94 00:04:27,083 --> 00:04:30,166 Gaetz: You ask whether it's ever possible to drain the swamp. 95 00:04:30,250 --> 00:04:32,458 As President Trump loves to say, 96 00:04:32,542 --> 00:04:34,417 "We'll see." 97 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:38,166 ♪ 98 00:04:41,542 --> 00:04:45,917 ♪ 99 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,417 Nancy Pelosi: Thanks to you, 100 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,709 tomorrow will be a new day in America. 101 00:04:50,792 --> 00:04:53,041 Newscaster: Democrats rode a blue wave to the majority, 102 00:04:53,125 --> 00:04:56,625 setting up what should be a contentious atmosphere in Washington, 103 00:04:56,709 --> 00:05:00,125 in 2019 and beyond. 104 00:05:00,208 --> 00:05:02,208 Kevin McCarthy: Fellow citizens and friends, 105 00:05:02,291 --> 00:05:04,417 let us lead together to show the people that 106 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:07,000 we are truly their voice, and their vote. 107 00:05:07,083 --> 00:05:08,375 In that spirit, 108 00:05:08,458 --> 00:05:10,625 I extend my hand of friendship 109 00:05:10,709 --> 00:05:13,083 to every member of this body. 110 00:05:13,166 --> 00:05:15,208 And to the Speaker of the House, 111 00:05:15,291 --> 00:05:16,583 Nancy Pelosi, 112 00:05:16,667 --> 00:05:18,792 I extend to you this gavel. 113 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:22,250 -(cheering and applause) -Thank you... 114 00:05:22,333 --> 00:05:25,125 Gaetz: There is an essence of this place 115 00:05:25,208 --> 00:05:27,667 that doesn't change no matter who wins the elections. 116 00:05:27,750 --> 00:05:29,417 Republicans. Democrats. 117 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:33,667 And the majority party is simply the party that is first in line 118 00:05:33,750 --> 00:05:38,250 to be the servant to the special interest overlords. 119 00:05:38,917 --> 00:05:41,959 I think that machinery, that infrastructure, 120 00:05:42,041 --> 00:05:43,458 that's the swamp. 121 00:05:45,792 --> 00:05:47,041 A member of Congress 122 00:05:47,125 --> 00:05:49,166 cannot ask another member of Congress 123 00:05:49,250 --> 00:05:50,834 for money in this building. 124 00:05:50,917 --> 00:05:52,709 We are in the Longworth office building. 125 00:05:52,792 --> 00:05:54,542 Or the Cannon office building, or anywhere else. 126 00:05:54,625 --> 00:05:59,083 Except the floor of the House of Representatives. 127 00:05:59,166 --> 00:06:02,000 So, like, when we were on the floor today, 128 00:06:02,083 --> 00:06:04,333 I had a more senior member come to me, 129 00:06:04,417 --> 00:06:06,792 and they gave me my assessment card. 130 00:06:06,875 --> 00:06:09,333 And so, your assessment card lets you know 131 00:06:09,417 --> 00:06:11,625 how much money you owe the party bosses. 132 00:06:11,709 --> 00:06:14,000 It says my name, the Honorable Matt Gaetz, 133 00:06:14,083 --> 00:06:16,375 that my spring dinner assessment 134 00:06:16,458 --> 00:06:18,291 is $55,000. 135 00:06:18,375 --> 00:06:21,667 This is a call to wealthy people, 136 00:06:21,750 --> 00:06:25,291 who, by virtue of their commitment, or their special interest, 137 00:06:25,375 --> 00:06:28,041 would like to give me $55,000 138 00:06:28,125 --> 00:06:29,917 to come have dinner with me and my colleagues. 139 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,625 Now, like, I find myself to be a very pleasant, 140 00:06:32,709 --> 00:06:33,667 uh, dinner guest, 141 00:06:33,750 --> 00:06:35,208 but I cannot imagine anyone, 142 00:06:35,291 --> 00:06:39,041 uh, willing to pay $55,000 to have dinner with me. 143 00:06:39,125 --> 00:06:41,750 This is my namesake, Matt Gaetz, the first. 144 00:06:41,834 --> 00:06:44,709 Uh, he built railroads in North Dakota. 145 00:06:44,792 --> 00:06:47,542 And this is my grandfather, Jerry Gaetz. 146 00:06:47,625 --> 00:06:49,291 He was a state Senator, 147 00:06:49,375 --> 00:06:51,041 and, uh, ran for lieutenant governor. 148 00:06:51,125 --> 00:06:53,041 Gave the speech to be nominated, 149 00:06:53,125 --> 00:06:55,125 and as soon as he walked off the stage, 150 00:06:55,208 --> 00:06:56,750 had a heart attack and died. 151 00:06:56,834 --> 00:06:58,792 My father served as a state Senator, 152 00:06:58,875 --> 00:07:02,041 and so I am the fourth generation of Gaetz 153 00:07:02,125 --> 00:07:04,083 to be in public life. 154 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,750 I keep this picture of a bill signing with President Trump, 155 00:07:08,834 --> 00:07:11,667 mostly because I have no idea why I was there. 156 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:16,041 This is a bill that I had almost no role in crafting. 157 00:07:16,125 --> 00:07:17,834 Uh, I think I voted for it, 158 00:07:17,917 --> 00:07:21,750 but, uh, sometimes the President just likes to be around some of his buddies. 159 00:07:21,834 --> 00:07:24,542 Trump: You ever watch this guy on television? 160 00:07:24,625 --> 00:07:27,375 He's like a machine. He's great. 161 00:07:27,458 --> 00:07:28,583 Matt Gaetz. 162 00:07:28,667 --> 00:07:30,834 (cheering, whistling) 163 00:07:34,166 --> 00:07:35,709 Great guy. 164 00:07:35,792 --> 00:07:37,250 Gaetz: I think the President is doing 165 00:07:37,333 --> 00:07:40,125 all that he can to change the ways of Washington. 166 00:07:40,208 --> 00:07:42,792 And it'd be a hell of a note if we'd have his back in Congress 167 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:44,125 every once in a while. 168 00:07:44,208 --> 00:07:45,333 Wolf Blitzer: One hour from now, 169 00:07:45,417 --> 00:07:46,959 President Trump's former lawyer, 170 00:07:47,041 --> 00:07:48,291 his confidante, his fixer, 171 00:07:48,375 --> 00:07:50,750 will unleash a point-by-point take down 172 00:07:50,834 --> 00:07:54,458 like none seen against a sitting President of the United States. 173 00:07:54,542 --> 00:07:57,500 Cohen made millions of dollars by promising access 174 00:07:57,583 --> 00:07:59,458 to his client, the President. 175 00:07:59,542 --> 00:08:01,458 Mika Brzezinski: Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, 176 00:08:01,542 --> 00:08:03,834 a staunch defender of President Trump, 177 00:08:03,917 --> 00:08:05,834 took to Twitter yesterday evening. 178 00:08:05,917 --> 00:08:08,375 "Hey, Michael Cohen, do your wife and father-in-law 179 00:08:08,458 --> 00:08:09,917 "know about your girlfriends? 180 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,500 "Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. 181 00:08:12,583 --> 00:08:15,458 "I wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. 182 00:08:15,542 --> 00:08:17,166 She's about to learn a lot." 183 00:08:17,250 --> 00:08:19,917 A ll the replies and comments on Twitter was like, 184 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,333 "That's witness intimidation. 185 00:08:21,417 --> 00:08:24,208 That's witness tampering. You're gonna go to jail." 186 00:08:24,291 --> 00:08:26,291 Reporter: Were you trying to intimidate him with those tweets? 187 00:08:26,375 --> 00:08:28,875 Listen, I didn't want to intimidate Cohen. I want Cohen here. 188 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:31,583 It's not intimidation and it's entirely appropriate 189 00:08:31,667 --> 00:08:33,709 to provide context for people 190 00:08:33,792 --> 00:08:36,792 who have a history of lying and likely a future of lying. 191 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:38,750 There were some who thought it was threatening, 192 00:08:38,834 --> 00:08:40,834 and that was absolutely not my intent. 193 00:08:40,917 --> 00:08:42,792 And so I deleted it for that purpose. 194 00:08:43,667 --> 00:08:46,000 Reporter 2: Why did you come down to the hearing today? 195 00:08:46,083 --> 00:08:47,667 'Cause I'm a member of Congress. 196 00:08:47,750 --> 00:08:49,875 Um, some people think it was inappropriate for you to be there 197 00:08:49,959 --> 00:08:52,250 considering your tweet. What do you have to say about that? 198 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:55,583 -Nothing. -Thank you. 199 00:08:56,083 --> 00:08:59,208 I believe that right now, with the start of the Cohen hearing, 200 00:08:59,291 --> 00:09:03,041 we're in the first quarter of the impeachment. 201 00:09:03,125 --> 00:09:06,417 I think that Democrats are certain to impeach the President, 202 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:10,583 and while it's terrible that we're gonna go through this impeachment process, 203 00:09:10,667 --> 00:09:12,709 it will not result in a conviction. 204 00:09:12,792 --> 00:09:15,375 At least the forgotten men and women of this country 205 00:09:15,458 --> 00:09:19,542 will have every reason to show up in 2020 and re-elect their President. 206 00:09:19,625 --> 00:09:21,959 I think that's gonna be the ultimate result. 207 00:09:23,333 --> 00:09:26,417 Michael Cohen: This conversation with Mr. Trump started-- 208 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:29,375 I didn't ask whether you were a good fixer. 209 00:09:29,458 --> 00:09:32,667 I asked whether you were a good lawyer. 210 00:09:32,750 --> 00:09:35,083 Sometimes you have to meld both together. 211 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:37,750 Massie, he said he was gonna yield me some of his time 212 00:09:37,834 --> 00:09:41,125 if I'd been given unanimous consent to participate. 213 00:09:41,208 --> 00:09:43,250 I'm kind of glad he didn't. His questions are very good. 214 00:09:43,333 --> 00:09:46,041 Thomas Massie (over TV): ...good job. You said you were a good lawyer, right? 215 00:09:46,125 --> 00:09:48,500 Is that being a good lawyer? 216 00:09:48,583 --> 00:09:51,083 To not even consider whether it's legal or not? 217 00:09:51,166 --> 00:09:53,250 Gaetz: What do you think that what we've seen now 218 00:09:53,333 --> 00:09:57,208 does to the Democrats' obvious desire to engage in impeachment? 219 00:09:57,291 --> 00:10:00,250 Um, I think if this was the foundation, 220 00:10:00,333 --> 00:10:02,625 it's, it's shifting on them already. 221 00:10:02,709 --> 00:10:04,792 (chuckling) It's very unstable. 222 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:07,667 He admitted to being a scumbag lawyer. 223 00:10:07,750 --> 00:10:10,208 -Those are two different things. -(laughs) 224 00:10:10,291 --> 00:10:13,375 -They're not blended. -I'm not a lawyer. He is. (chuckles) 225 00:10:14,792 --> 00:10:18,041 Massie: I'm an engineer at heart, and by training. 226 00:10:18,125 --> 00:10:20,208 Growing up, I liked taking things apart 227 00:10:20,291 --> 00:10:21,834 and putting them back together. 228 00:10:21,917 --> 00:10:23,625 So, I went to M.I.T. 229 00:10:23,709 --> 00:10:25,625 to get an electrical engineering degree, 230 00:10:25,709 --> 00:10:28,333 and I hung around and got a mechanical engineering degree, 231 00:10:28,417 --> 00:10:30,083 and started my own company. 232 00:10:30,166 --> 00:10:31,750 When you hold the PHANTOM in your hand, 233 00:10:31,834 --> 00:10:35,291 you can actually feel the shape that's on the computer screen. 234 00:10:35,375 --> 00:10:37,417 I invented a virtual reality device 235 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:40,709 that lets you touch and feel three-dimensional objects. 236 00:10:40,792 --> 00:10:43,750 So I started out in the virtual reality industry, 237 00:10:43,834 --> 00:10:46,792 and then after 10 years, I sold my ownership in that, 238 00:10:46,875 --> 00:10:50,333 moved back to Kentucky, and got back to reality on the farm. 239 00:10:50,417 --> 00:10:53,959 But then I ran for Congress and entered virtual reality again. 240 00:10:54,041 --> 00:10:55,583 I'm kind of a Libertarian, 241 00:10:55,667 --> 00:10:58,417 but kind of prefer the label Constitutional Conservative. 242 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:01,500 I think we should get back to the Constitution, 243 00:11:01,583 --> 00:11:03,375 and put government within the bounds 244 00:11:03,458 --> 00:11:05,834 that the founding fathers put on it. 245 00:11:05,917 --> 00:11:08,792 Newscaster: After three months now of bucking the system, 246 00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:10,875 freshman Republican Thomas Massie 247 00:11:10,959 --> 00:11:14,208 has already earned a nickname on Capitol Hill: 248 00:11:14,291 --> 00:11:15,667 "Mr. No." 249 00:11:15,750 --> 00:11:17,834 Massie: Up here, they've called me "Mr. No." 250 00:11:17,917 --> 00:11:21,000 If you heard that nickname, you'd think I vote no all the time, 251 00:11:21,083 --> 00:11:22,208 but I looked this up. 252 00:11:22,291 --> 00:11:24,917 I only vote no, like, 25 percent of the time. 253 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,500 Twenty-five percent dissension with your party 254 00:11:28,583 --> 00:11:32,041 is a heretic in Washington, DC. 255 00:11:32,125 --> 00:11:35,834 And if people are gonna drain the swamp, 256 00:11:35,917 --> 00:11:37,709 like the President wants to do, 257 00:11:37,792 --> 00:11:39,583 they need better information 258 00:11:39,667 --> 00:11:41,625 about how this place is broken. 259 00:11:41,709 --> 00:11:43,792 And that's my mission in Congress. 260 00:11:44,542 --> 00:11:46,583 So, my friend Justin Amash-- 261 00:11:46,667 --> 00:11:49,250 he's a Congressman from Michigan-- 262 00:11:49,333 --> 00:11:51,041 got me this for my birthday, 263 00:11:51,125 --> 00:11:56,041 because we both kind of look at the Capitol as the Death Star. 264 00:11:56,125 --> 00:11:59,542 ("Star Wars" soundtrack playing) 265 00:11:59,625 --> 00:12:02,875 I mean, if you come up here to visit, there's scaffolding on it all the time. 266 00:12:02,959 --> 00:12:06,041 It looks like it's being worked on, but it's fully functional. 267 00:12:06,125 --> 00:12:09,083 And it can destroy happiness and life anywhere 268 00:12:09,166 --> 00:12:10,667 on the globe. 269 00:12:10,750 --> 00:12:12,291 (exploding) 270 00:12:12,625 --> 00:12:16,583 What I'm doing up here is looking for the one weakness in the Death Star. 271 00:12:16,667 --> 00:12:19,542 (soundtrack continues) 272 00:12:19,625 --> 00:12:22,583 But sometimes I end up in the trash compactor. 273 00:12:23,959 --> 00:12:25,458 Interviewer: Who's Darth Vader? 274 00:12:25,542 --> 00:12:27,041 (Massie laughing) 275 00:12:27,125 --> 00:12:29,041 Massie: Well, Darth Vader was Paul Ryan, 276 00:12:29,125 --> 00:12:32,041 but now it's Nancy Pelosi. (laughing) 277 00:12:32,583 --> 00:12:34,625 (elevator dings) 278 00:12:34,709 --> 00:12:38,125 So this one is reserved for members of Congress. 279 00:12:39,333 --> 00:12:40,917 Not many of us have the heart 280 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,291 to kick somebody off who's not a member. 281 00:12:43,375 --> 00:12:46,667 Virginia Foxx is notorious for kicking people off, 282 00:12:46,750 --> 00:12:49,583 but she won't just kick the staffers off the elevator. 283 00:12:49,667 --> 00:12:51,083 She asks them who they work for, 284 00:12:51,166 --> 00:12:53,458 'cause she tells on 'em, too. 285 00:12:53,542 --> 00:12:55,083 Hey, Virginia. 286 00:12:55,166 --> 00:12:56,667 I was just telling them, you keep, 287 00:12:56,750 --> 00:12:59,125 you keep our elevator for members only. 288 00:12:59,208 --> 00:13:01,834 -These folks are-- (laughs) -I do my best. 289 00:13:08,041 --> 00:13:11,291 ♪ 290 00:13:12,083 --> 00:13:14,166 Massie: It's so exhausting 291 00:13:14,250 --> 00:13:16,583 to run in place. 292 00:13:16,667 --> 00:13:18,375 And to get nothing done. 293 00:13:18,458 --> 00:13:19,917 That's the frustrating thing to me. 294 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,583 The most frustrating thing to me is the fact that 295 00:13:22,667 --> 00:13:23,834 we know what's wrong. 296 00:13:23,917 --> 00:13:26,625 Every year, we don't pass a budget on time. 297 00:13:26,709 --> 00:13:29,166 We wait until the day before Christmas, 298 00:13:29,250 --> 00:13:30,917 and everybody wants to get out of town. 299 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,375 Everybody votes for this ridiculous spending bill 300 00:13:33,458 --> 00:13:34,750 that nobody's read. 301 00:13:34,834 --> 00:13:37,083 And then we pretend that we're fiscal Conservatives, 302 00:13:37,166 --> 00:13:39,458 and the hypocrisy of, 303 00:13:39,542 --> 00:13:42,166 uh, pretending that we care about spending, 304 00:13:42,250 --> 00:13:44,917 and "we," as the general "we," we care about spending. 305 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,667 -Massie: Please use the general "we." -Yeah. 306 00:13:46,750 --> 00:13:48,750 -'Cause I don't like to think... -It's not you and I. 307 00:13:48,834 --> 00:13:50,667 -...we're doing any of that. -Right. 308 00:13:50,750 --> 00:13:52,000 Ken Buck: My name is Ken Buck, 309 00:13:52,083 --> 00:13:53,375 and I was the founding member 310 00:13:53,458 --> 00:13:55,417 of the Freedom Caucus in the House, 311 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:59,792 which is the Conservative group that was formed in 2015. 312 00:13:59,875 --> 00:14:02,667 Freedom Caucus has always been a loyal opposition 313 00:14:02,750 --> 00:14:04,083 within the Republican party, 314 00:14:04,166 --> 00:14:07,166 and so I don't expect, uh, members of the Freedom Caucus 315 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:09,625 to get leadership positions. That's not our role. 316 00:14:09,709 --> 00:14:12,625 Our role is to try to be the conscience of the party. 317 00:14:13,959 --> 00:14:16,834 I had stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 318 00:14:16,917 --> 00:14:18,709 and my sense of purpose is different 319 00:14:18,792 --> 00:14:21,667 after cancer than before, so I feel like 320 00:14:21,750 --> 00:14:23,291 whether I get reelected or not, 321 00:14:23,375 --> 00:14:25,166 I'm here to do the right thing. 322 00:14:25,250 --> 00:14:29,125 And the right thing to me was to expose what goes on in Congress, 323 00:14:29,208 --> 00:14:31,667 and make sure the American public knows about it. 324 00:14:31,750 --> 00:14:33,834 For many of the members of Congress, 325 00:14:33,917 --> 00:14:36,083 it's a job that they don't want to give up, 326 00:14:36,166 --> 00:14:39,709 and so, their reelection is more important than 327 00:14:39,792 --> 00:14:43,625 the actual problem solving that, that needs to go on in DC. 328 00:14:43,709 --> 00:14:47,291 I wrote "Drain the Swamp" during my first term in Congress, 329 00:14:47,375 --> 00:14:50,458 because we were told by leadership right from the beginning, 330 00:14:50,542 --> 00:14:53,709 "Here are all the goodies that you can enjoy 331 00:14:53,792 --> 00:14:56,667 if you play the game the way we want you to play the game." 332 00:14:56,750 --> 00:14:58,166 And the game is 333 00:14:58,250 --> 00:14:59,500 agreeing with leadership. 334 00:14:59,583 --> 00:15:01,458 Agreeing with the special interest groups 335 00:15:01,542 --> 00:15:02,875 on, on how to vote. 336 00:15:02,959 --> 00:15:04,333 And, and how to govern. 337 00:15:04,417 --> 00:15:06,709 I'm not one of those people that's not very agreeable. 338 00:15:06,792 --> 00:15:09,166 The problem with the Republican party now is, 339 00:15:09,250 --> 00:15:11,500 we have such a fresh history 340 00:15:11,583 --> 00:15:13,083 of violating the Constitution, 341 00:15:13,166 --> 00:15:15,375 of violating fiscal responsibility, 342 00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:17,500 of violating personal accountability, 343 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:20,000 that we don't have a high ground 344 00:15:20,083 --> 00:15:23,834 to stand and say, "You guys are doing the wrong thing." 345 00:15:24,166 --> 00:15:27,375 ♪ 346 00:15:33,333 --> 00:15:36,750 Lawrence Lessig: I'd spent many years trying to push policy 347 00:15:36,834 --> 00:15:40,417 that would make the regulation of culture more sensible. 348 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:43,917 And the regulation of the internet more effective. 349 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,250 And while in the courts we made progress, 350 00:15:47,333 --> 00:15:50,959 Congress was constantly resisting. 351 00:15:51,041 --> 00:15:53,291 At a certain point, a friend of mine 352 00:15:53,375 --> 00:15:55,750 basically said to me, "So, why do you think 353 00:15:55,834 --> 00:15:57,667 "you're ever going to make any progress, 354 00:15:57,750 --> 00:16:01,625 "so long as we have this deep corruption 355 00:16:01,709 --> 00:16:04,041 in our government?" 356 00:16:04,125 --> 00:16:06,542 I realized he was exactly right, 357 00:16:06,625 --> 00:16:08,500 so literally that night, 358 00:16:08,583 --> 00:16:11,375 I promised him I would give up my old career, 359 00:16:11,458 --> 00:16:14,417 and take up a new career. That was about a dozen years ago. 360 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:17,417 Before we were Republicans, 361 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:19,000 before we were Democrats, 362 00:16:19,083 --> 00:16:21,709 we were citizens first. 363 00:16:22,291 --> 00:16:25,291 We need citizen soldiers fighting for a democracy 364 00:16:25,375 --> 00:16:27,291 that is beyond party. 365 00:16:27,375 --> 00:16:29,125 That is above party. 366 00:16:29,208 --> 00:16:31,709 That is focused on citizens first. 367 00:16:31,792 --> 00:16:36,750 ♪ 368 00:16:36,834 --> 00:16:41,208 The Constitution, in Article One, sets up Congress. 369 00:16:42,208 --> 00:16:44,125 Framers gave the pride of place 370 00:16:44,208 --> 00:16:47,208 to the most important democratic institution 371 00:16:47,291 --> 00:16:50,000 within our republic. 372 00:16:50,083 --> 00:16:53,959 Madison describes Congress as being a body that would be, quote, 373 00:16:54,041 --> 00:16:57,750 "...dependent on the people alone." 374 00:16:59,250 --> 00:17:01,542 And I think the most important man 375 00:17:01,625 --> 00:17:05,458 in the history of Congress, after Madison, 376 00:17:05,542 --> 00:17:07,500 is Newt Gingrich. 377 00:17:07,583 --> 00:17:10,583 And I think Newt Gingrich destroyed Congress. 378 00:17:13,250 --> 00:17:17,417 Newt was a very ambitious history professor 379 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:19,375 who came to Congress 380 00:17:19,458 --> 00:17:21,875 and was keen to turn the Republicans 381 00:17:21,959 --> 00:17:23,875 into a kind of militant opposition, 382 00:17:23,959 --> 00:17:27,542 and then he won control of the House for the Republicans 383 00:17:27,625 --> 00:17:31,125 for the first time in 40 years in the 1994 election. 384 00:17:32,125 --> 00:17:33,667 And starting in 1995, 385 00:17:33,750 --> 00:17:36,542 he began to change the institution fundamentally. 386 00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:39,083 On the first day of the 104th Congress, 387 00:17:39,166 --> 00:17:41,583 the new Republican majority will immediately pass 388 00:17:41,667 --> 00:17:43,875 the following major reforms. 389 00:17:43,959 --> 00:17:45,834 Lessig: One of the ways he changed the institution 390 00:17:45,917 --> 00:17:47,709 was to basically begin the process 391 00:17:47,792 --> 00:17:50,125 of shifting Congress people over 392 00:17:50,208 --> 00:17:52,667 to the life as fundraisers. 393 00:17:52,750 --> 00:17:55,709 He told them, "Don't move your families to Washington. 394 00:17:55,792 --> 00:17:57,458 We'll work three days a week." 395 00:17:57,542 --> 00:17:59,166 The rest of the time, you know, 396 00:17:59,250 --> 00:18:01,083 he said you could be going home, but what happens is, 397 00:18:01,166 --> 00:18:03,625 the rest of the time, they're out there raising money. 398 00:18:03,709 --> 00:18:06,208 It becomes their perpetual campaign, 399 00:18:06,291 --> 00:18:08,709 which dramatically increases the amount of money 400 00:18:08,792 --> 00:18:11,250 that both sides are bringing into the process. 401 00:18:11,333 --> 00:18:13,875 He has changed the culture, changed the agenda, 402 00:18:13,959 --> 00:18:16,417 changed the language, and changed the dialogue. 403 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:20,500 Lessig: Gingrich's change in the structure of power in the House 404 00:18:20,583 --> 00:18:23,208 was all about assuring that the Speaker 405 00:18:23,291 --> 00:18:25,041 could direct everything. 406 00:18:25,125 --> 00:18:27,333 And the Democrats followed. It's not like it's different 407 00:18:27,417 --> 00:18:29,000 on the Democrats' side. 408 00:18:29,083 --> 00:18:31,834 Buck: The Speaker controls the schedule, 409 00:18:31,917 --> 00:18:34,750 what bills go to the floor, what comes out of committee, 410 00:18:34,834 --> 00:18:37,500 who the members are of the committee. 411 00:18:37,583 --> 00:18:40,709 Massie: I think a lot of people would be surprised to find out 412 00:18:40,792 --> 00:18:42,041 that members of Congress 413 00:18:42,125 --> 00:18:43,458 are expected to pay their party 414 00:18:43,542 --> 00:18:46,000 for their committee assignments. 415 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:49,875 And this is, like, $200,000, $500,000 416 00:18:49,959 --> 00:18:51,417 every election cycle, 417 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,458 just to get a certain committee seat. 418 00:18:53,542 --> 00:18:55,500 Now, where are you gonna get that money? 419 00:18:55,583 --> 00:18:57,500 You're not gonna go back home and have a fundraiser 420 00:18:57,583 --> 00:19:00,333 in somebody's living room. That just doesn't work. 421 00:19:00,417 --> 00:19:04,000 The people that fund your purchase of the committee seat 422 00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:05,625 are the people who have an interest 423 00:19:05,709 --> 00:19:07,542 in the work product of that committee, 424 00:19:07,625 --> 00:19:08,875 i.e. the lobbyists. 425 00:19:08,959 --> 00:19:10,792 Gaetz: Every committee in the Congress 426 00:19:10,875 --> 00:19:13,291 has a letter grade associated with it-- 427 00:19:13,375 --> 00:19:14,917 A, B, or C. 428 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,458 That letter grade is solely lashed to 429 00:19:17,542 --> 00:19:22,125 that committee's ability to generate campaign cash for its members. 430 00:19:22,208 --> 00:19:24,625 If you're on the ways and means committee, 431 00:19:24,709 --> 00:19:27,500 then you have jurisdiction over the entire tax code. 432 00:19:27,583 --> 00:19:29,500 There is no lobbyist in this town 433 00:19:29,583 --> 00:19:31,709 that would not swim across the Potomac 434 00:19:31,792 --> 00:19:33,917 to deliver you a $5,000 back check. 435 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,166 But if you're on the Veterans Affairs Committee, 436 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:37,959 which is really important, 437 00:19:38,041 --> 00:19:41,959 you just don't have the same bevy of special interests 438 00:19:42,041 --> 00:19:44,917 thirsting for your attention with donations. 439 00:19:46,417 --> 00:19:49,000 Lessig: Under Newt Gingrich, committee chairmanships 440 00:19:49,083 --> 00:19:51,500 were increasingly assigned to people who raised money. 441 00:19:51,583 --> 00:19:52,875 And if you didn't raise that money-- 442 00:19:52,959 --> 00:19:54,667 the Democrats did this, Nancy Pelosi did this-- 443 00:19:54,750 --> 00:19:56,458 you kicked somebody off the chairmanship. 444 00:19:56,542 --> 00:19:59,291 So this is all about changing what was supposed to be 445 00:19:59,375 --> 00:20:01,792 a really critical institutional role 446 00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:05,291 played by a chairman-- somebody who knows something about the field-- 447 00:20:05,375 --> 00:20:09,834 into just the most effective fundraiser in that field. 448 00:20:09,917 --> 00:20:12,709 Massie: So there's a price tag assigned to every committee. 449 00:20:12,792 --> 00:20:16,166 But there's also a price tag assigned to being the Speaker. 450 00:20:16,250 --> 00:20:20,417 So, the Speaker up here is expected to raise about $80 million 451 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:23,959 every election cycle, and dole that out. 452 00:20:24,041 --> 00:20:26,208 Buck: The Speaker and the minority leader 453 00:20:26,291 --> 00:20:28,333 control distribution of funds to members, 454 00:20:28,417 --> 00:20:31,709 so it's the rank-and-file that chooses the leadership, 455 00:20:31,792 --> 00:20:34,709 but people misunderstand that somehow we're choosing people, 456 00:20:34,792 --> 00:20:38,333 you know, that we think are the best at articulating our positions. 457 00:20:38,417 --> 00:20:40,959 That's not true. It's who can raise the money, 458 00:20:41,041 --> 00:20:42,959 and the special interest groups control the money. 459 00:20:43,041 --> 00:20:45,709 So, the hierarchy of power in Washington, DC, 460 00:20:45,792 --> 00:20:49,875 is special interest groups, leadership, rank-and-file members. 461 00:20:49,959 --> 00:20:53,542 Lessig: That system is a system that makes the members of Congress 462 00:20:53,625 --> 00:20:56,750 so sensitive to what the lobbyists want 463 00:20:56,834 --> 00:20:59,750 that it's hard for them to see above the water 464 00:20:59,834 --> 00:21:02,792 and recognize what the public needs. 465 00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:04,250 And that dynamic 466 00:21:04,333 --> 00:21:07,000 is the corruption, I think of, as the swamp. 467 00:21:07,083 --> 00:21:08,834 Gaetz: The special interests 468 00:21:08,917 --> 00:21:11,083 don't really want anything to get done in this town, 469 00:21:11,166 --> 00:21:13,750 because if we actually started working together on some stuff, 470 00:21:13,834 --> 00:21:16,250 things would change. And if things change, 471 00:21:16,333 --> 00:21:18,625 the people who are getting rich off the current system 472 00:21:18,709 --> 00:21:21,000 would not be getting rich off that system. 473 00:21:21,083 --> 00:21:24,000 That's why I think that the greatest challenge we face 474 00:21:24,083 --> 00:21:25,917 is not Republicans versus Democrats. 475 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,583 It's reformers against those who want to maintain the status quo. 476 00:21:29,667 --> 00:21:32,792 And we got Republicans and Democrats in both groups. 477 00:21:34,667 --> 00:21:36,417 Ro Khanna: My view is, 478 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:39,208 we need a more progressive vision for America, 479 00:21:39,291 --> 00:21:40,959 but a vision is insufficient 480 00:21:41,041 --> 00:21:43,250 if you don't get things done. 481 00:21:43,333 --> 00:21:45,458 And I do think that there is an appetite 482 00:21:45,542 --> 00:21:47,792 among the newer generation of members of Congress 483 00:21:47,875 --> 00:21:49,291 to build broad coalitions, 484 00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:51,875 and we always have to listen to criticism 485 00:21:51,959 --> 00:21:55,208 from the other side, and understand that they're representing 486 00:21:55,291 --> 00:21:57,208 a particular constituency in America 487 00:21:57,291 --> 00:22:00,083 and a particular perspective. 488 00:22:00,166 --> 00:22:02,792 Gaetz: We would be sort of an odd couple, politically. 489 00:22:02,875 --> 00:22:05,500 I am a Tea Party Republican from Florida. 490 00:22:05,583 --> 00:22:09,125 Ro served in the Obama administration and represents Silicon Valley. 491 00:22:09,208 --> 00:22:12,625 But folks like Ro even, who maybe don't hold my ideology 492 00:22:12,709 --> 00:22:14,125 or my view on every subject, 493 00:22:14,208 --> 00:22:16,834 understand that this place has to change 494 00:22:16,917 --> 00:22:19,291 if we want to do right by the American people. 495 00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:21,834 Khanna: We came here to work for the people who sent us here. 496 00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:24,500 Not for the leadership, not for committee chairs. 497 00:22:24,583 --> 00:22:26,500 And not, certainly, for the lobbyists. 498 00:22:26,583 --> 00:22:30,417 All right, so, some reforms that would surprise people we would agree on. 499 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,500 -Would you vote for term limits? -I would. 500 00:22:32,583 --> 00:22:34,667 I'm one of two Democrats or so who will. 501 00:22:34,750 --> 00:22:36,250 See, I would vote for term limits. 502 00:22:36,333 --> 00:22:38,250 Would you vote for non-partisan redistricting commissions? 503 00:22:38,333 --> 00:22:40,291 -I would. I think that would be great. -I would vote for that. 504 00:22:40,375 --> 00:22:43,500 Would you vote on a lifetime ban on lobbying for members of Congress? 505 00:22:43,583 --> 00:22:47,125 I would. I think there should be a-- no revolving door. 506 00:22:47,208 --> 00:22:48,542 And would you ban lobbyists 507 00:22:48,625 --> 00:22:50,458 from giving money to members of Congress? 508 00:22:50,542 --> 00:22:53,000 I would, and, and, uh, I don't take lobbyists' money, 509 00:22:53,083 --> 00:22:54,834 and I think we should ban lobbyists from doing that. 510 00:22:54,917 --> 00:22:57,166 See? That's the "drain the swamp" agenda. Khanna-Gaetz. 511 00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,583 We could run on that and unite 80 percent of the country. 512 00:23:00,667 --> 00:23:04,125 ♪ 513 00:23:09,041 --> 00:23:10,709 -Good morning. -Massie: How you doing? 514 00:23:10,792 --> 00:23:12,709 -I'm Diana Ohlbaum from FCNL. -Oh, okay. 515 00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:14,750 -Nice to meet you, Diana. -Thank you so much for your vote on this, 516 00:23:14,834 --> 00:23:16,208 -and your support. -Yeah, well... 517 00:23:16,291 --> 00:23:17,583 Diana Ohlbaum: You're a real key person. 518 00:23:17,667 --> 00:23:19,041 Massie: I think you might be surprised 519 00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:22,291 how many Conservatives are just done with war. 520 00:23:22,375 --> 00:23:24,125 Right now, as I'm serving in Congress, 521 00:23:24,208 --> 00:23:25,709 this is one of my top issues, 522 00:23:25,792 --> 00:23:29,375 is to reclaim the constitutional power of Congress to declare war 523 00:23:29,458 --> 00:23:31,667 back from the executive branch. 524 00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:34,083 Newscaster: California Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee 525 00:23:34,166 --> 00:23:36,625 and Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie 526 00:23:36,709 --> 00:23:39,834 want to repeal the 2001 authorization 527 00:23:39,917 --> 00:23:42,000 for the use of military force. 528 00:23:42,667 --> 00:23:44,417 Massie: After 9-11, 529 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,375 there was so much appetite for doing something 530 00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:50,333 that it was almost political suicide 531 00:23:50,417 --> 00:23:52,667 if you decided not to vote for an AUMF 532 00:23:52,750 --> 00:23:55,250 that was responsive to the terrorist attacks. 533 00:23:55,333 --> 00:23:57,333 George W. Bush: We will make no distinction 534 00:23:57,417 --> 00:24:00,625 between the terrorists who committed these acts 535 00:24:00,709 --> 00:24:02,333 and those who harbor them. 536 00:24:02,417 --> 00:24:03,917 Barbara Lee: As we act, 537 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,959 let us not become the evil that we deplore. 538 00:24:09,041 --> 00:24:12,834 Massie: Barbara Lee was the lone vote against the AUMF, 539 00:24:12,917 --> 00:24:17,709 and she did prove that you could stand on principle, 540 00:24:17,792 --> 00:24:20,709 and eventually be right, 541 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:22,667 and still survive politically, 542 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:24,959 but a lot of the people who went against the grain 543 00:24:25,041 --> 00:24:26,875 did not survive politically. 544 00:24:26,959 --> 00:24:29,667 Lee: Our constituents sent us to Congress 545 00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,667 to make the hard decisions. 546 00:24:31,750 --> 00:24:35,291 We owe it to the American people to take these tough votes, 547 00:24:35,375 --> 00:24:39,166 and repeal the 2001 authorization. 548 00:24:39,250 --> 00:24:41,458 Ari Melber: Bush invoked the bill for potential actions 549 00:24:41,542 --> 00:24:42,959 in over 11 different countries. 550 00:24:43,041 --> 00:24:44,333 His successor added nine more, 551 00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:46,917 including places that had no tie to 9-11. 552 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,792 The overreach here began with Bush, 553 00:24:48,875 --> 00:24:51,625 but the Pentagon and Presidents in both parties 554 00:24:51,709 --> 00:24:55,417 tend to hold on to major powers, not just give them up. 555 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,250 Buck: Our founding fathers wanted to make sure 556 00:24:58,333 --> 00:25:00,542 that a decision that was as significant 557 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:05,125 as sending Americans overseas to fight and lose their lives 558 00:25:05,208 --> 00:25:07,500 would only be made with a vote 559 00:25:07,583 --> 00:25:09,792 in the people's House, and in the Senate, 560 00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:12,000 and so I think it's really important that we respect that. 561 00:25:12,083 --> 00:25:14,417 I think it was the right move in the Constitution, 562 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:15,792 and we've gotten away from that. 563 00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:19,792 There's a reason that our founders gave Congress 564 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:21,500 the power over war and peace. 565 00:25:21,583 --> 00:25:24,333 Because we have to go and answer to our constituents. 566 00:25:24,417 --> 00:25:27,625 And I'll tell you something. There's not a single American 567 00:25:27,709 --> 00:25:30,000 who wouldn't want the violence to end, 568 00:25:30,083 --> 00:25:34,291 and allow food and medicine to get to those kids 569 00:25:34,375 --> 00:25:37,166 who are gonna face death if we do nothing. 570 00:25:37,250 --> 00:25:40,000 I built a coalition in the House 571 00:25:40,083 --> 00:25:43,583 to try to end support for the war in Yemen, 572 00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:45,875 and we passed a war powers resolution, 573 00:25:45,959 --> 00:25:49,208 and there were 16 Republicans who helped with that effort. 574 00:25:49,291 --> 00:25:51,291 Buck: That was something where we had 575 00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:53,083 a number of Freedom Caucus members 576 00:25:53,166 --> 00:25:54,959 and a number of progressive caucus members 577 00:25:55,041 --> 00:25:57,208 working together to pass that. 578 00:25:57,291 --> 00:25:59,625 When it comes to war powers, 579 00:25:59,709 --> 00:26:01,458 those two groups can work together. 580 00:26:01,542 --> 00:26:04,709 Massie: This is not a partisan issue and that's why I'm here today. 581 00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:09,291 There are only about 70 members of Congress out of the 435 582 00:26:09,375 --> 00:26:11,625 that are serving today who were actually here 583 00:26:11,709 --> 00:26:14,000 for the original AUMF vote. 584 00:26:14,083 --> 00:26:18,041 And I can tell you, those 70 who voted for it never imagined, 585 00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:20,125 except perhaps Barbara Lee imagined, 586 00:26:20,208 --> 00:26:23,542 that this would be used to justify all of the wars 587 00:26:23,625 --> 00:26:26,500 that have gone on since then, and all of the military engagements, 588 00:26:26,583 --> 00:26:30,375 and possible future engagements from here on out. 589 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:35,917 Gaetz: I represent the district that's got the highest 590 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,083 concentration of active duty military in the country. 591 00:26:39,166 --> 00:26:41,583 But I am no cheerleader for war. 592 00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:44,542 Emcee: I'd just like to welcome to the stage Congressman Matt Gaetz. 593 00:26:44,625 --> 00:26:47,834 -Gaetz: Thank you. Oh, thank you, guys. -(applause) 594 00:26:47,917 --> 00:26:51,000 Gaetz: I've seen my whole life, living in my district, 595 00:26:51,083 --> 00:26:53,917 what the impacts of war really are for families. 596 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,417 Parenting disrupted. Marriages destroyed. 597 00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:01,542 Drug abuse. Domestic abuse. Veteran suicide. 598 00:27:01,834 --> 00:27:04,333 Caskets draped in flags. 599 00:27:04,417 --> 00:27:07,291 As I travel home to north Florida this week, 600 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:09,375 I will meet with commanding officers. 601 00:27:09,458 --> 00:27:13,166 They will brief me on the missions and preparations undertaken, 602 00:27:13,250 --> 00:27:16,750 and if called to combat, my neighbors will go first, 603 00:27:16,834 --> 00:27:18,417 and they'll fight the hardest. 604 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,125 Now I'm at a place with the President 605 00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:22,208 where we speak very regularly. 606 00:27:22,291 --> 00:27:25,208 And so if I can be a good advisor, supporter, 607 00:27:25,291 --> 00:27:27,291 influencer to President Trump, 608 00:27:27,375 --> 00:27:30,417 that will give me a chance to impact the world by 609 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,917 contributing to, you know, the most valuable real estate 610 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,375 that exists in Washington, 611 00:27:34,458 --> 00:27:36,875 and that's between the President's ears. 612 00:27:37,208 --> 00:27:41,000 ♪ 613 00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:44,333 We're here in Seaside. 614 00:27:44,417 --> 00:27:46,917 This is, uh, where my family has spent our, 615 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,917 really most of our family time most of my life. 616 00:27:50,750 --> 00:27:53,041 This little gazebo up here, 617 00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:56,625 critical spot in the life of Matt Gaetz. 618 00:27:56,709 --> 00:28:00,250 It's the, uh, site of my first kiss, right here. 619 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,917 I'd tell you who, but it would probably be very embarrassing for them. 620 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,583 So this is the Truman house, and in the mid '90s, 621 00:28:08,667 --> 00:28:13,333 one day some producer just shows up in a golf cart, 622 00:28:13,417 --> 00:28:17,417 and, uh, tells my mother that they want to make a movie in this house, 623 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,041 starring Jim Carrey. 624 00:28:19,792 --> 00:28:20,750 Good morning! 625 00:28:20,834 --> 00:28:22,709 -Morning! -Good morning! 626 00:28:22,917 --> 00:28:24,291 Oh, and in case I don't see you, 627 00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:26,291 good afternoon, good evening, and good night. 628 00:28:26,375 --> 00:28:28,333 Gaetz: He made a few other movies and then ended up 629 00:28:28,417 --> 00:28:29,667 painting a portrait of me. 630 00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:31,709 And so, it wasn't the most flattering, 631 00:28:31,792 --> 00:28:35,458 but nonetheless, it was pretty cool to see it come full circle. 632 00:28:35,542 --> 00:28:37,709 So, this is the house I grew up in, 633 00:28:37,792 --> 00:28:41,959 and this was my bedroom during my formative years. 634 00:28:44,959 --> 00:28:48,500 And voila! Love America. 635 00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:50,959 Hey, everyone. This is Congressman Matt Gaetz. 636 00:28:51,041 --> 00:28:52,834 I'm out on Navarre Beach now, 637 00:28:52,917 --> 00:28:55,959 but today is our Won't Back Down Town Hall tour. 638 00:28:56,041 --> 00:28:59,125 ("I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty playing) 639 00:29:01,583 --> 00:29:03,333 Good to see you guys. 640 00:29:03,417 --> 00:29:05,792 (cheering and applause) 641 00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:11,166 I am proud of the fact that I have been a leading member of the Congress 642 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:14,542 to expose the 22-month witch hunt, 643 00:29:14,625 --> 00:29:18,083 lie, unfair investigation of our President. 644 00:29:18,166 --> 00:29:20,333 (cheering and applause) 645 00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:25,083 What will it take to reinitiate 646 00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:28,834 going after Hillary Clinton for obstruction of justice, 647 00:29:28,917 --> 00:29:32,041 -and Benghazi? -(all cheering) 648 00:29:35,917 --> 00:29:38,625 We gotta call on more people from the bar area. 649 00:29:38,709 --> 00:29:40,959 They got it going on. 650 00:29:41,041 --> 00:29:45,166 Woman: I'm concerned about our young kids in elementary school 651 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:47,583 that do not know the Pledge of Allegiance. 652 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:51,125 And then when you go to a football game and they're in high school, 653 00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:52,667 nobody sings the words. 654 00:29:52,750 --> 00:29:55,709 Everybody just stand there like a dummy. 655 00:29:55,792 --> 00:29:58,083 (scattered applause) 656 00:29:58,166 --> 00:30:01,792 You want to sing a few bar-- You want to sing a few bars for us? 657 00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:05,959 Both: ♪ O say, can you see ♪ 658 00:30:06,041 --> 00:30:10,208 ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ 659 00:30:10,291 --> 00:30:14,458 ♪ What so proudly we hail ♪ 660 00:30:14,542 --> 00:30:18,709 ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ 661 00:30:18,792 --> 00:30:23,542 -(crowd joins in) -♪ Whose bright stripes and bright stars ♪ 662 00:30:23,625 --> 00:30:27,291 ♪ Through the perilous fight ♪ 663 00:30:27,375 --> 00:30:30,959 Gaetz: My district is one of the most Conservative districts in the country. 664 00:30:31,041 --> 00:30:35,083 But one of the little pockets of liberalism that we have 665 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:37,083 is in downtown Pensacola. 666 00:30:37,166 --> 00:30:39,500 It's the most urban area of my district, 667 00:30:39,583 --> 00:30:42,959 and so I guess it would be easy for me to only go to the places 668 00:30:43,041 --> 00:30:45,041 where everyone's a Matt Gaetz cheerleader, 669 00:30:45,125 --> 00:30:47,417 but I have an obligation 670 00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:50,917 to serve and appear before people who don't agree with me. 671 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,917 Crowd (chanting): Love, not hate! 672 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,583 Makes America great! 673 00:30:54,667 --> 00:30:56,583 Love, not hate! 674 00:30:56,667 --> 00:30:58,667 Makes America great! 675 00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:00,750 Love, not hate! 676 00:31:00,834 --> 00:31:02,875 Makes America great! 677 00:31:02,959 --> 00:31:04,667 Love, not hate! 678 00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:06,542 Makes America great! 679 00:31:06,625 --> 00:31:08,458 Gaetz: Thank you all for coming. 680 00:31:08,542 --> 00:31:11,041 Appreciate seeing you here. 681 00:31:11,125 --> 00:31:13,417 -(chanting continues) -Woman: Love, not hate! 682 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,125 Gaetz: Thank you all for coming. 683 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,250 Hey, good to see you all. Thanks for coming. 684 00:31:17,333 --> 00:31:18,875 Man: Hey, Matt, thanks for coming. 685 00:31:18,959 --> 00:31:21,125 Oh, I'm honored. I'm honored. Hey, thank you all for coming. 686 00:31:21,208 --> 00:31:23,166 (applause) 687 00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:24,750 Man: Hallelujah! 688 00:31:24,834 --> 00:31:27,500 -(cheering) -Hey. Hey, it's good to see you. 689 00:31:28,375 --> 00:31:30,125 I am concerned for our government. 690 00:31:30,208 --> 00:31:33,208 If there could ever be a takeover or a coup, 691 00:31:33,291 --> 00:31:36,750 it really bothers me, that, uh, that this could happen. 692 00:31:36,834 --> 00:31:41,000 You know, when I first started to uncover this troubling evidence 693 00:31:41,083 --> 00:31:43,709 of people who didn't view their obligations 694 00:31:43,792 --> 00:31:45,709 as conducting investigations, 695 00:31:45,792 --> 00:31:48,417 but instead thought that their role was to remove 696 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,875 the duly elected President of the United States. 697 00:31:50,959 --> 00:31:53,834 I came out and said, "That is what a coup is." 698 00:31:53,917 --> 00:31:55,875 -Woman: Not true! -That is what treason looks like, 699 00:31:55,959 --> 00:31:59,333 and that's what we're gonna find out with Attorney General Barr 700 00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,375 who is gonna turn the tables on the people 701 00:32:01,458 --> 00:32:04,000 who are trying to destroy our country. 702 00:32:04,083 --> 00:32:05,792 Woman: That's a lie! 703 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:07,959 Speak the truth! 704 00:32:08,041 --> 00:32:09,291 Boo! 705 00:32:09,375 --> 00:32:11,500 Crowd (chanting): Hey hey! Ho ho! 706 00:32:11,583 --> 00:32:13,417 Baby Gaetz has got to go! 707 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,166 Hey hey! Ho ho! 708 00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:17,041 Baby Gaetz has got to go! 709 00:32:17,125 --> 00:32:19,417 -Hey hey! Ho ho! -Man: 1.2 million dollars! 710 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:21,834 Hey! Thank you all-- 711 00:32:22,667 --> 00:32:24,750 -(woman chanting) -Who threw that? 712 00:32:24,834 --> 00:32:26,208 Who threw that? You go get them. 713 00:32:26,291 --> 00:32:28,250 Woman (chanting): Whose beach? Whose beach? 714 00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:30,000 Whose beach? 715 00:32:30,083 --> 00:32:31,709 Thank you all so much for coming. 716 00:32:31,792 --> 00:32:34,083 I'm grateful you're here. Thank you. 717 00:32:34,166 --> 00:32:36,750 -Whose beach? Whose beach? -Our beach! Our beach! 718 00:32:36,959 --> 00:32:39,000 Woman: You're embarrassing us. 719 00:32:43,417 --> 00:32:45,959 Luke Ball: When that went viral on social media, 720 00:32:46,041 --> 00:32:50,291 we started seeing increasingly violent responses to it. 721 00:32:50,375 --> 00:32:52,333 And it led to people saying, 722 00:32:52,417 --> 00:32:53,792 "We're gonna throw urine on you," 723 00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:55,542 and then it led to a death threat. 724 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,750 I'll play it for you. 725 00:32:57,834 --> 00:32:59,834 Man (on phone): Hey, Gaetz, 726 00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:02,041 you pathetic piece of shit. 727 00:33:02,125 --> 00:33:05,458 Do you know that I could blow your fucking head 728 00:33:05,542 --> 00:33:09,250 clean off your shoulders from over a mile away? 729 00:33:09,333 --> 00:33:12,166 You got your head so far up Trump's ass... 730 00:33:12,250 --> 00:33:15,667 Ha, ha, ha! I could still take it off your shoulders. 731 00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:19,000 I'm coming after you and your family, Gaetz. 732 00:33:19,083 --> 00:33:22,417 This Congress, we're on record for 10,000 threats 733 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,875 against members of Congress, and I condemn them, 734 00:33:24,959 --> 00:33:27,000 whether they're against Republicans, Democrats, 735 00:33:27,083 --> 00:33:28,458 -Liberals, Conservatives. -Of course. 736 00:33:28,542 --> 00:33:30,291 You know, this is just no way 737 00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:31,834 to operate within our country. 738 00:33:31,917 --> 00:33:33,375 Lessig: Congress operates 739 00:33:33,458 --> 00:33:36,000 inside of a media environment, 740 00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:39,542 that itself profits from the politics of hate. 741 00:33:39,625 --> 00:33:42,458 Everybody profits from the politics of hate. 742 00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:44,583 The liars in the Democratic party, 743 00:33:44,667 --> 00:33:46,834 you can never trust these people, ever. 744 00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:49,834 The Republican party is now fully and totally responsible 745 00:33:49,917 --> 00:33:53,417 for these racist, divisive, un-American ideas. 746 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,917 Do you want people here on merit, or not? 747 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,834 Do you want people to come here to speak English, or not? 748 00:33:58,917 --> 00:34:01,542 This is not just a group of desperate migrants. 749 00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:04,041 We have people who are criminals, 750 00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:07,083 thugs, special interest aliens, jihadists. 751 00:34:07,166 --> 00:34:09,583 You brought to the State of the Union, or you gave a ticket to, 752 00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:13,709 somebody who is a fairly notorious racist and Holocaust denier. 753 00:34:13,792 --> 00:34:15,458 Look, he's a controversial figure. 754 00:34:15,542 --> 00:34:18,500 There were plenty of controversial folks at the State of the Union. 755 00:34:18,583 --> 00:34:22,166 The way that you're able to elevate your profile in Washington 756 00:34:22,250 --> 00:34:23,792 is to drive conflict, 757 00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:25,792 because conflict is interesting. 758 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:28,709 And I think that the really powerful people in this town 759 00:34:28,792 --> 00:34:31,917 are the ones that can go on television and make an argument. 760 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,041 And that's power that the leadership can never take away from you. 761 00:34:35,125 --> 00:34:37,041 -We're still on for Cuomo tonight, right? -Woman: Correct. 762 00:34:37,125 --> 00:34:38,375 -In person? -Right. 763 00:34:38,458 --> 00:34:40,250 The right says that all the time-- 764 00:34:40,333 --> 00:34:43,375 You think people on the right are rooting for more school shootings? 765 00:34:43,458 --> 00:34:45,250 -I see it all the time, and so you do. -Wow, I have never-- 766 00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:49,417 You spend all this time on fake news CNN, and nobody watches you. 767 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,500 -Oh, man... -And I'm like, you're wasting your time. 768 00:34:51,583 --> 00:34:53,083 Man-- Okay, true or false? 769 00:34:53,166 --> 00:34:55,083 Lessig: You know, you look at the partisan spin 770 00:34:55,166 --> 00:34:56,333 of cable television-- 771 00:34:56,417 --> 00:34:58,959 Fox News and MSNBC and CNN. 772 00:34:59,041 --> 00:35:02,000 Up until 2001, they're basically the same. 773 00:35:02,083 --> 00:35:04,667 And then beginning in 2002 or 2003, 774 00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:06,625 they start splitting dramatically, 775 00:35:06,709 --> 00:35:08,917 so that they are deeply partisan. 776 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,417 And that bleeds into Congress. 777 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,166 You know, you want to rally your base against the other side. 778 00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:17,041 You've gotta make sure that the other side is devil, 779 00:35:17,125 --> 00:35:19,250 and if you don't call the other side the devil, 780 00:35:19,333 --> 00:35:21,000 then they're not gonna be interested in supporting you. 781 00:35:21,083 --> 00:35:23,625 What you see from the radical left today 782 00:35:23,709 --> 00:35:26,875 is an attack on the democracy of our country itself. 783 00:35:26,959 --> 00:35:31,208 The radical left just wants to de-platform, demonize, destroy-- 784 00:35:31,291 --> 00:35:34,458 We have Democrats who have no interest in legislating. 785 00:35:34,542 --> 00:35:37,792 It is all about continuing on the next witch hunt 786 00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:39,250 with a new broomstick. 787 00:35:39,333 --> 00:35:40,625 I don't think of a television clip 788 00:35:40,709 --> 00:35:42,417 about how it's going to play on TV. 789 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,125 I think about a clip that's on Twitter or YouTube, 790 00:35:45,208 --> 00:35:48,125 and how do you create an exciting or viral moment 791 00:35:48,208 --> 00:35:49,458 that people are eager to share 792 00:35:49,542 --> 00:35:51,625 and that might offer some new insight. 793 00:35:51,709 --> 00:35:55,208 Lessig: On social media, everything that increases engagement 794 00:35:55,291 --> 00:35:57,917 increases the opportunity to sell ads. 795 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,709 And people are more engaged 796 00:35:59,792 --> 00:36:03,041 the more polarized the environment becomes. 797 00:36:04,291 --> 00:36:06,500 And that bleeds into Congress, too. 798 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:11,959 If you look at the number of bills that it has passed 799 00:36:12,041 --> 00:36:14,458 in a cross-partisan way, 800 00:36:14,542 --> 00:36:16,208 it's gone in the 1970s 801 00:36:16,291 --> 00:36:19,500 from a very significant cross-partisan institution 802 00:36:19,583 --> 00:36:23,166 to an institution now that just literally cannot do anything 803 00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:24,917 in a cross-partisan way. 804 00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:30,166 You know, compromise, since Ronald Reagan, 805 00:36:30,250 --> 00:36:33,458 has had this framing of weakness, 806 00:36:33,542 --> 00:36:35,458 or duplicity. 807 00:36:35,542 --> 00:36:37,500 So, if you compromise, 808 00:36:37,583 --> 00:36:41,166 as a member of Congress, it's like you're lying to your base. 809 00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:45,959 And that's the dynamic which Newt Gingrich encouraged. 810 00:36:46,041 --> 00:36:48,625 He knows that the way you raise money 811 00:36:48,709 --> 00:36:52,375 is to trigger the hatred of the other side in your favor. 812 00:36:52,458 --> 00:36:56,333 Politics of hate is the most productive technique 813 00:36:56,417 --> 00:36:58,041 for fundraising we have. 814 00:36:58,125 --> 00:37:01,375 I am sickened by how unpatriotically 815 00:37:01,458 --> 00:37:04,500 they undermine the Constitution of the United States. 816 00:37:05,375 --> 00:37:07,208 Pelosi: We are here today 817 00:37:07,291 --> 00:37:10,375 because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed 818 00:37:10,458 --> 00:37:12,500 with hatred of President Clinton. 819 00:37:12,583 --> 00:37:15,709 And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, 820 00:37:15,792 --> 00:37:17,583 our country will suffer. 821 00:37:17,667 --> 00:37:20,458 But of course, an institution like Congress 822 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:25,250 is supposed to find a common ground for the nation as a whole. 823 00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:29,166 And if you're not willing to find a solution that could represent America, 824 00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:32,583 then you're not doing your work as a representative. 825 00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:35,917 And if we get nothing done, I tell you the status quo 826 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,542 will really love that, 827 00:37:37,625 --> 00:37:40,667 because they benefit from nothing getting done. 828 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,333 We're kind of slumming it here, going to Longworth, you know. 829 00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:54,542 The senior members are in Rayburn. 830 00:37:54,625 --> 00:37:56,166 Matt's still stuck over here, 831 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:58,792 but with the kind of TV time he gets, 832 00:37:58,875 --> 00:38:01,834 he'll have an office in the Capitol soon. 833 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:10,875 Gaetz: I've seen the way you've been an independent member here. 834 00:38:10,959 --> 00:38:12,417 I'm starting to get a sense that 835 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,792 when you don't always adhere to kind of the establishment, 836 00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:17,959 leadership viewpoint on things 837 00:38:18,041 --> 00:38:20,166 that you see an impact in your fundraising. 838 00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:22,417 I raised about a couple hundred thousand dollars 839 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,625 here in Washington, DC, in my first term, 840 00:38:24,709 --> 00:38:28,125 but after they found out I wasn't here to go along to get along, 841 00:38:28,208 --> 00:38:30,125 it went almost to zero. 842 00:38:30,208 --> 00:38:32,583 In fact, there was a six-month period 843 00:38:32,667 --> 00:38:36,333 where they ranked me number 437 in the House for fundraising. 844 00:38:36,417 --> 00:38:38,208 Gaetz: I thought there were only 435 members. 845 00:38:38,291 --> 00:38:40,500 There are only 435 voting members, 846 00:38:40,583 --> 00:38:42,125 but Guam and Puerto Rico, 847 00:38:42,208 --> 00:38:44,458 -their delegates raised more money. -They don't have a vote! 848 00:38:44,542 --> 00:38:46,709 They don't have a vote, and they raised more money 849 00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:48,667 than me in that six-month period. 850 00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:51,291 But what have you got there? Like, is this your fundraising plan? 851 00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:53,333 -Your campaign? -This meeting I recently had, 852 00:38:53,417 --> 00:38:54,583 I somewhat resented it, 853 00:38:54,667 --> 00:38:56,542 I meet with these guys, and they say, "Gaetz, 854 00:38:56,625 --> 00:38:59,333 "you know, you're on TV, people know who you are in your state, 855 00:38:59,417 --> 00:39:01,417 "and we really think you can run for higher office, 856 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:02,834 but you don't raise enough money." 857 00:39:02,917 --> 00:39:05,959 And so, they write me this plan, and it's just, like, 858 00:39:06,041 --> 00:39:09,041 it's basically how to whore yourself out for money. 859 00:39:09,125 --> 00:39:11,500 And when I say, like, "Who's, who's gonna do this?" 860 00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:14,166 Like, "Who wants to give me $100,000?" 861 00:39:14,250 --> 00:39:15,625 They basically say, "Well, what--" 862 00:39:15,709 --> 00:39:17,875 The next question is, "What committees are you on?" 863 00:39:17,959 --> 00:39:20,458 How can you use your Congressional pin 864 00:39:20,542 --> 00:39:23,542 to go and, and help a lobbyist 865 00:39:23,625 --> 00:39:25,166 as your primary objective. 866 00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:29,291 It's demoralizing, and folks like AOC, Bernie Sanders, 867 00:39:29,375 --> 00:39:31,792 have proven that you don't need that. 868 00:39:33,375 --> 00:39:35,166 Massie: This is my Congressional pin, 869 00:39:35,250 --> 00:39:38,750 and you'll see a lot of people around here wearing them. 870 00:39:38,834 --> 00:39:41,917 I started to call this pin "Precious." 871 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,083 If you've ever seen "Lord of the Rings" or "The Hobbit"... 872 00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:47,291 My Precious... 873 00:39:47,458 --> 00:39:49,041 "Precious"? 874 00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:51,375 Massie: And the reason I call it Precious is, 875 00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:53,375 it affects how you think. 876 00:39:53,458 --> 00:39:55,709 You can come here as a hobbit, 877 00:39:55,792 --> 00:39:57,500 and put this thing on, 878 00:39:57,583 --> 00:40:00,375 and become Gollum in very short order. 879 00:40:00,458 --> 00:40:04,291 My... Precious! 880 00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,250 Massie: Just like Precious made the hobbit invisible, 881 00:40:07,333 --> 00:40:09,375 you walk past the metal detectors here. 882 00:40:09,458 --> 00:40:13,000 You don't go through them, you walk around them if you wear this. 883 00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:15,417 The police do what you tell them to do, 884 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:16,959 if you're wearing Precious. 885 00:40:17,041 --> 00:40:20,000 The tourists figure out what Precious is. 886 00:40:20,083 --> 00:40:21,417 And if you're wearing Precious, 887 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,750 they know that you must be precious. 888 00:40:23,834 --> 00:40:26,917 And so, because people behave differently around you, 889 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,500 it gives you a feeling of power. 890 00:40:29,583 --> 00:40:31,917 An uncomfortable feeling for me. 891 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,500 And so, I try not to wear it any more than I have to, 892 00:40:35,583 --> 00:40:38,917 because I think eventually it will turn me from a hobbit 893 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,458 into a Gollum, and I see that happen up here. 894 00:40:50,333 --> 00:40:52,458 So, here's two briefing sheets. 895 00:40:52,542 --> 00:40:55,333 This morning, it was reported that 896 00:40:55,417 --> 00:40:58,917 Iran shot down one of our drones. 897 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,417 -There's an in-depth Fox News article in there-- -Call Charlie. 898 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:02,583 Just call Charlie. 899 00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:05,333 Hey, man. It's Luke. 900 00:41:05,583 --> 00:41:07,125 Um, I got the boss here. 901 00:41:07,208 --> 00:41:08,792 Let me put you on speaker for this part. 902 00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,625 -Charlie. -Charlie Truxal (on phone): Yes, sir. 903 00:41:10,709 --> 00:41:13,291 -Tell me what you know. - It's confirmed that one of our drones 904 00:41:13,375 --> 00:41:16,166 was shot down over the evening by the Iranians. 905 00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:18,834 This one was a high-altitude flying MQ-9 906 00:41:18,917 --> 00:41:20,709 from what I am tracking, one of the threads. 907 00:41:20,792 --> 00:41:24,333 And they were able to hit it effectively at high altitude, 908 00:41:24,417 --> 00:41:26,458 -which is unbelievable. -Gaetz: An MQ-9? 909 00:41:26,542 --> 00:41:28,125 Truxal: ...I think ever done that once before. 910 00:41:28,208 --> 00:41:30,667 Gaetz: Jesus. All right, thanks, Charlie. 911 00:41:30,750 --> 00:41:32,208 Jake Tapper: The Pentagon is deploying 912 00:41:32,291 --> 00:41:33,500 an additional thousand troops 913 00:41:33,583 --> 00:41:35,792 to the region as a deterrent against 914 00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:37,542 what the Trump administration calls, 915 00:41:37,625 --> 00:41:39,375 "increased Iranian aggressions." 916 00:41:39,458 --> 00:41:41,709 Reporter: Do you believe right now that you have the authority 917 00:41:41,792 --> 00:41:43,583 to strike Iran without Congress? 918 00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,250 Uh, I do like keeping them abreast, 919 00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:47,125 but I don't have to do it legally. 920 00:41:47,208 --> 00:41:49,083 I have not seen intel 921 00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:53,458 that would justify utilizing the 2001 Global War on Terror 922 00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:56,709 authorization to use military force against Iran. 923 00:41:56,792 --> 00:41:59,291 So I'm proud to work with Ro Khanna 924 00:41:59,375 --> 00:42:01,500 and other folks on the political left 925 00:42:01,583 --> 00:42:03,709 to try to achieve a bipartisan consensus, 926 00:42:03,792 --> 00:42:07,166 because if my constituents have to have the courage and bravery 927 00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,125 to go and fight these wars and die in these wars, 928 00:42:10,208 --> 00:42:11,667 then politicians in Washington 929 00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:13,500 need the courage to actually vote on them, 930 00:42:13,583 --> 00:42:16,750 and decide what's worthy of spilling American blood, 931 00:42:16,834 --> 00:42:18,625 and what isn't. 932 00:42:18,709 --> 00:42:20,667 Khanna: We're at risk of a serious escalation 933 00:42:20,750 --> 00:42:22,500 that could spiral out of control. 934 00:42:22,583 --> 00:42:24,083 Congress has to be the check, 935 00:42:24,166 --> 00:42:26,709 and that's why I've been working with Matt Gaetz 936 00:42:26,792 --> 00:42:29,875 to have an amendment that we're going to introduce tomorrow. 937 00:42:29,959 --> 00:42:32,166 And the amendment is going to make it very clear. 938 00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:35,959 The President can't take any action in declaring war in Iran, 939 00:42:36,041 --> 00:42:38,333 uh, without Congressional authorization, 940 00:42:38,417 --> 00:42:41,125 and we will defund any such activity. 941 00:42:46,625 --> 00:42:48,208 -Gaetz: Jillian? -Jillian Lane Wyant: I'm here. 942 00:42:48,291 --> 00:42:50,709 -I knew this would happen. -Wyant: I had this-- 943 00:42:50,792 --> 00:42:53,333 I asked you, I said three times, I said, "We will get down here, 944 00:42:53,417 --> 00:42:56,083 and we will not have a person here." 945 00:42:56,166 --> 00:42:58,000 I specifically want to reference 946 00:42:58,083 --> 00:43:00,750 information that we've received in a classified setting, 947 00:43:00,834 --> 00:43:02,125 and so for us to discuss that, 948 00:43:02,208 --> 00:43:04,500 there are rooms tucked throughout the basements 949 00:43:04,583 --> 00:43:06,583 and tunnels at the Capitol complex 950 00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:09,917 that are available for a more secure discussion or brief. 951 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,125 Sir, are all your, uh, electronics-- 952 00:43:12,208 --> 00:43:14,667 You can take the key of one of those. 953 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:17,250 -No Apple watch, Ro? -I mean... 954 00:43:17,333 --> 00:43:20,291 -What kind of Silicon Valley Congressman are you? -You know. 955 00:43:24,583 --> 00:43:26,667 Gaetz: So have you done this with a lot of your legislation? 956 00:43:26,750 --> 00:43:28,792 -File it directly in the Hopper? -Khanna: No. 957 00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:32,583 We are going to submit our joint amendment to the Hopper, 958 00:43:32,667 --> 00:43:36,166 which is, uh, how you submit an amendment or a bill 959 00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:38,000 to the House floor to get it for a vote. 960 00:43:38,083 --> 00:43:40,291 We're coming together with this unique coalition 961 00:43:40,375 --> 00:43:43,333 in constitutional prerogative to prevent war. 962 00:43:43,417 --> 00:43:48,291 So, I, I actually think this is a great example of Congress actually working. 963 00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:49,792 Wyant: Trump just came out with a statement 964 00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:51,041 while you guys were talking about Iran. 965 00:43:51,125 --> 00:43:52,959 -Oh. What'd he say? -"Any attack by Iran 966 00:43:53,041 --> 00:43:54,250 "on anything American 967 00:43:54,333 --> 00:43:56,458 "will be met with great and overwhelming force. 968 00:43:56,542 --> 00:43:59,625 "In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. 969 00:43:59,709 --> 00:44:01,875 No more John Kerry and Obama." 970 00:44:01,959 --> 00:44:04,208 We better hurry. 971 00:44:04,291 --> 00:44:06,083 Neil Cavuto: I was just checking. Are pigs flying? 972 00:44:06,166 --> 00:44:08,041 Because Democrats and Republicans 973 00:44:08,125 --> 00:44:10,125 have apparently found something to agree on. 974 00:44:10,208 --> 00:44:11,750 Or at least, these next two gentlemen have. 975 00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:13,291 Recent reporting that was in "The Hill," 976 00:44:13,375 --> 00:44:15,625 I believe, showed that by a margin of two-to-one, 977 00:44:15,709 --> 00:44:20,333 Americans favored diplomacy and negotiation over war. 978 00:44:20,417 --> 00:44:23,667 Newscaster: President Trump says the military was cocked and loaded 979 00:44:23,750 --> 00:44:26,125 to carry out air strikes against Iran overnight 980 00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:28,000 when he suddenly decided not to do it. 981 00:44:28,083 --> 00:44:29,375 Trump: I'm not looking for war, 982 00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:31,375 and if there is, it'll be obliteration 983 00:44:31,458 --> 00:44:33,041 like you've never seen before. 984 00:44:33,125 --> 00:44:35,542 Newscaster: Tonight, senior administration officials say 985 00:44:35,625 --> 00:44:38,083 all options are still on the table. 986 00:44:38,166 --> 00:44:41,375 Buck: As long as the President is engaging in wars, 987 00:44:41,458 --> 00:44:42,834 we don't have to vote on a war. 988 00:44:42,917 --> 00:44:44,542 And if some American soldier, 989 00:44:44,625 --> 00:44:46,500 a Marine airman dies, 990 00:44:46,583 --> 00:44:50,417 we don't have to accept the blame for that. We can point a finger. 991 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,583 So, all the tough decisions are pushed off 992 00:44:52,667 --> 00:44:57,583 to the executive branch, and power has shifted as a result. 993 00:44:57,667 --> 00:44:59,583 Massie: The military industrial complex, 994 00:44:59,667 --> 00:45:02,667 they got a lot of money to make when we're in war. 995 00:45:02,750 --> 00:45:05,375 They're up here donating to Congressmen. 996 00:45:05,458 --> 00:45:07,792 And so that's a force that keeps war going. 997 00:45:08,750 --> 00:45:12,291 And unfortunately, I serve with some real cowards. 998 00:45:12,375 --> 00:45:15,125 They would rather not ever have to take that vote. 999 00:45:15,208 --> 00:45:16,583 (applause) 1000 00:45:16,667 --> 00:45:18,375 Khanna: The biggest thing I found in Washington 1001 00:45:18,458 --> 00:45:20,208 is just this total risk aversion. 1002 00:45:20,291 --> 00:45:23,375 I mean, people, they don't want to rock the boat. 1003 00:45:23,458 --> 00:45:25,583 And people who are in power 1004 00:45:25,667 --> 00:45:28,208 have a stake in preserving that power. 1005 00:45:28,291 --> 00:45:29,792 (explosion) 1006 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:36,667 (lawnmower puttering) 1007 00:45:41,458 --> 00:45:43,375 Gaetz: How many media appearances today, 1008 00:45:43,458 --> 00:45:45,000 including Facebook Lives? 1009 00:45:45,083 --> 00:45:47,917 -Four? Five? -Wyant: Uh, I think four. 1010 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,667 Gaetz: Charles, it's like we're going through "Groundhog Day" 1011 00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:52,542 each and every week in the House Judiciary Committee. 1012 00:45:52,625 --> 00:45:55,375 We are going over the same facts that were in the Mueller Report. 1013 00:45:55,458 --> 00:45:58,250 And it doesn't seem to be moving, uh, the fact that 1014 00:45:58,333 --> 00:46:01,875 sixty percent of the country doesn't want to see impeachment go forward. 1015 00:46:01,959 --> 00:46:04,750 There was no collusion with Russia. 1016 00:46:04,834 --> 00:46:07,250 There was no obstruction, 1017 00:46:07,333 --> 00:46:09,208 and none whatsoever. 1018 00:46:09,291 --> 00:46:11,041 Newscaster: On the collusion conspiracy issue, 1019 00:46:11,125 --> 00:46:12,625 the President is right. 1020 00:46:12,709 --> 00:46:14,083 The Mueller Report does not establish 1021 00:46:14,166 --> 00:46:15,709 any such wrongdoing. 1022 00:46:15,792 --> 00:46:17,458 But on the issue of obstruction, 1023 00:46:17,542 --> 00:46:19,500 Mueller does not agree with the President. 1024 00:46:19,583 --> 00:46:21,959 Jerry Nadler: Responsibility now falls to Congress 1025 00:46:22,041 --> 00:46:24,583 to hold the President accountable for his actions. 1026 00:46:24,667 --> 00:46:28,083 This has nothing to do with volume one or volume two of the Mueller Report. 1027 00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:30,000 (indistinct arguing) 1028 00:46:30,083 --> 00:46:31,917 Man: They don't know anything about the Mueller Report! 1029 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,375 Nadler: Gentleman will suspend. 1030 00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:35,375 Gaetz: Chairman Nadler and the Democrats 1031 00:46:35,458 --> 00:46:36,458 on the Judiciary Committee 1032 00:46:36,542 --> 00:46:38,375 are dying to impeach Donald Trump. 1033 00:46:38,458 --> 00:46:40,625 They would have impeached him yesterday if they could. 1034 00:46:40,709 --> 00:46:42,542 But Nancy Pelosi knows 1035 00:46:42,625 --> 00:46:44,875 that impeachment is like poisonous candy. 1036 00:46:44,959 --> 00:46:47,083 You know, you can look at the candy, you can want the candy, 1037 00:46:47,166 --> 00:46:49,166 but if you eat the candy, you're gonna die. 1038 00:46:49,250 --> 00:46:51,959 Newscaster: She doesn't want Democrats in swing districts 1039 00:46:52,041 --> 00:46:54,417 having to take a tough vote on impeachment. 1040 00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,166 That's a really ugly vote. 1041 00:46:56,250 --> 00:46:58,417 Gaetz: It's my view that the Mueller Report 1042 00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:00,875 was the dispositive word on collusion, 1043 00:47:00,959 --> 00:47:02,959 and that we all ought to move on as a country. 1044 00:47:03,041 --> 00:47:05,458 But if Democrats really want to probe these issues, 1045 00:47:05,542 --> 00:47:06,959 why are we eating around the edges? 1046 00:47:07,041 --> 00:47:08,792 Why don't they just call Robert Mueller? 1047 00:47:08,875 --> 00:47:11,458 (news theme playing) 1048 00:47:11,542 --> 00:47:13,250 Newscaster: The former special counsel is about to make 1049 00:47:13,333 --> 00:47:16,291 back-to-back appearances before the House Judiciary 1050 00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:17,917 and Intelligence committees. 1051 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,667 Gaetz: I don't think I slept very much last night. 1052 00:47:20,750 --> 00:47:22,959 This is kind of our version of the Super Bowl. 1053 00:47:23,041 --> 00:47:25,458 Getting ready for an opportunity to 1054 00:47:25,542 --> 00:47:28,583 display the work of our office over the last two years 1055 00:47:28,667 --> 00:47:32,083 in a very condensed, uh, high-intensity setting. 1056 00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:34,041 All right. 1057 00:47:35,083 --> 00:47:36,709 Off to see the wizard. 1058 00:47:36,792 --> 00:47:38,250 For the last couple weekends, 1059 00:47:38,333 --> 00:47:40,166 I have, uh, spent a lot of time on the phone 1060 00:47:40,250 --> 00:47:43,250 with some of my colleagues: Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe. 1061 00:47:43,333 --> 00:47:45,125 We have had a number of mock sessions 1062 00:47:45,208 --> 00:47:47,667 where I'll pretend it's my five minutes, 1063 00:47:47,750 --> 00:47:50,834 and ask one of my colleagues, as if they're Mueller, the questions I have, 1064 00:47:50,917 --> 00:47:53,667 and then they'll turn around and ask those questions of me. 1065 00:47:53,750 --> 00:47:55,959 Who's the one member of the Judiciary Committee 1066 00:47:56,041 --> 00:47:58,500 who has refused to show up to a single prep session, 1067 00:47:58,583 --> 00:48:01,000 a single practice, a single mood court? 1068 00:48:01,083 --> 00:48:03,208 Ken Buck. Ken Buck. A gamer. 1069 00:48:03,291 --> 00:48:05,458 Doesn't wanna leave any on the practice field. 1070 00:48:08,166 --> 00:48:10,875 Christopher Jaarda: Um, what we're doing is we're laying forward that 1071 00:48:10,959 --> 00:48:14,083 there are ten separate fact patterns covered in the Mueller Report. 1072 00:48:14,166 --> 00:48:15,500 And in many of those, 1073 00:48:15,583 --> 00:48:18,208 Mueller could have reached a prosecutorial decision, 1074 00:48:18,291 --> 00:48:20,709 which he did not do, even though the regulations 1075 00:48:20,792 --> 00:48:24,041 require him to make that decision. 1076 00:48:24,125 --> 00:48:26,458 Newscaster: This is really a critical test for Democrats, 1077 00:48:26,542 --> 00:48:28,375 who are looking to impeach this President. 1078 00:48:28,458 --> 00:48:31,625 This may be their final moment to lay out for the American public 1079 00:48:31,709 --> 00:48:34,583 why that is something, uh, that should be on the table. 1080 00:48:34,667 --> 00:48:36,417 Newscaster 2: Now, when it comes to Republicans, 1081 00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:38,792 they are going to focus on the origins 1082 00:48:38,875 --> 00:48:40,375 of the Mueller investigation. 1083 00:48:40,458 --> 00:48:42,583 I think there were a lot of facts, uh, 1084 00:48:42,667 --> 00:48:46,709 regarding the interaction of people who didn't like the President and Russians... 1085 00:48:46,792 --> 00:48:48,333 -that weren't fully developed. -Reporter: Who do you mean, specifically? 1086 00:48:48,417 --> 00:48:50,834 Well, uh, you'll, you'll see in just a moment. 1087 00:48:54,500 --> 00:48:56,750 Do you have any basis as you sit here today 1088 00:48:56,834 --> 00:48:58,542 to believe that Steele was lying? 1089 00:48:58,625 --> 00:49:00,750 As I said before and I'll say again, 1090 00:49:00,834 --> 00:49:03,417 it's not my purview. Others are investigating what you-- 1091 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,250 Gaetz (on TV): So it's not your purview to look into 1092 00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:06,625 whether or not Steele's lying. 1093 00:49:06,709 --> 00:49:08,417 It's not your purview to look into whether or not 1094 00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:10,417 anti-Trump Russians are lying to Steele. 1095 00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:12,542 And here's what I'm kind of noticing, Director Mueller. 1096 00:49:12,625 --> 00:49:15,542 When people associated with Trump lied, you threw the book at 'em. 1097 00:49:15,625 --> 00:49:17,750 When Christopher Steele lied, nothing. 1098 00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:21,208 Maybe the reason why there are this discrepancies in what you focused on, 1099 00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:23,291 because the team is so biased... 1100 00:49:23,375 --> 00:49:25,417 -Man: Time of the gentlemen has expired. -... pledge to stop Trump. 1101 00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:27,667 Man: Mr. Jeffries of New York is recognized. 1102 00:49:27,750 --> 00:49:29,333 I guess he didn't get to the closing. 1103 00:49:29,417 --> 00:49:31,834 - All right. I'm gonna start pulling it. -Yeah. 1104 00:49:31,917 --> 00:49:34,625 All right, uh, we're starting to pull, 1105 00:49:34,709 --> 00:49:36,166 go on critical mention, 1106 00:49:36,250 --> 00:49:38,917 try to search for that Florida keyword that I found, 1107 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,625 and then you should be able to copy and paste 1108 00:49:41,709 --> 00:49:44,166 -the transcript portion. -Is it up here? 1109 00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:45,709 Wyant: This is a huge moment. 1110 00:49:45,792 --> 00:49:47,166 Now I don't just think in Congress, though. 1111 00:49:47,250 --> 00:49:48,625 I think this is in the country, as well. 1112 00:49:48,709 --> 00:49:51,709 Because this kind of can dictate where we go next. 1113 00:49:51,792 --> 00:49:56,083 Buck: Was there sufficient evidence to convict President Trump, 1114 00:49:56,166 --> 00:49:59,291 or anyone else, with obstruction of justice? 1115 00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:00,875 In Office of Legal Counsel, 1116 00:50:00,959 --> 00:50:03,792 indicates that we cannot indict a sitting President. 1117 00:50:03,875 --> 00:50:06,291 Could you charge the President with a crime 1118 00:50:06,375 --> 00:50:08,333 -after he left office? -Yes. 1119 00:50:08,417 --> 00:50:10,000 You believe that he committed-- 1120 00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:11,667 You could charge the President of the United States 1121 00:50:11,750 --> 00:50:15,041 -with obstruction of justice after he left office. -Yes. 1122 00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:20,208 Buck: The liberals will use the answers 1123 00:50:20,291 --> 00:50:22,041 that Mueller gave on his report, 1124 00:50:22,125 --> 00:50:24,834 and they will allege that the President committed obstruction, 1125 00:50:24,917 --> 00:50:26,417 and it's an impeachable offense. 1126 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:30,166 The Republicans will talk about how unfair this investigation was, 1127 00:50:30,250 --> 00:50:33,125 that the people that were involved in the investigation were biased. 1128 00:50:33,208 --> 00:50:35,542 So, I think both sides have takeaways, 1129 00:50:35,625 --> 00:50:38,625 and depending on which news organization you listen to, 1130 00:50:38,709 --> 00:50:41,000 you're gonna hear, uh, that takeaway. 1131 00:50:41,083 --> 00:50:43,625 Ritika Robertson: I think the people that were pro-impeachment before 1132 00:50:43,709 --> 00:50:46,458 are still pro-impeachment. The people that were anti-impeachment 1133 00:50:46,542 --> 00:50:49,458 are still anti-impeachment. And most of the country just doesn't care. 1134 00:50:49,542 --> 00:50:51,583 Newscaster: This is absolutely not the day 1135 00:50:51,667 --> 00:50:54,333 the Democrats had wanted it to be. I agree... 1136 00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:57,166 The Democrats in the committee on the dais 1137 00:50:57,250 --> 00:51:00,834 looked like they had been held at a funeral for too long. 1138 00:51:00,917 --> 00:51:03,458 Newscaster: The President, by the way, we know is watching this. 1139 00:51:03,542 --> 00:51:05,709 He's been doing so, we're told, from inside the residence. 1140 00:51:05,792 --> 00:51:08,000 not in the West Wing of the White House here. 1141 00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:11,208 (voice over phone) 1142 00:51:11,291 --> 00:51:14,542 Hey, Mr. President. It's your favorite Congressman, Matt Gaetz. 1143 00:51:14,625 --> 00:51:17,792 Great day to be an American. Give me a ring at your convenience. 1144 00:51:18,625 --> 00:51:20,583 I'll call him at the office. 1145 00:51:27,709 --> 00:51:29,166 Mr. President. 1146 00:51:30,542 --> 00:51:32,709 I think we won the day, sir. 1147 00:51:33,166 --> 00:51:35,125 (Trump speaking) 1148 00:51:44,333 --> 00:51:45,875 No, I, I-- 1149 00:51:46,667 --> 00:51:47,875 Yeah, he is. 1150 00:51:48,166 --> 00:51:49,792 No, I think we-- 1151 00:51:53,667 --> 00:51:56,750 Well, I think the-- the biggest mistake was Nadler. 1152 00:51:56,834 --> 00:51:58,667 Bringing this guy in. I mean, this was-- 1153 00:51:58,750 --> 00:52:00,166 this was a train wreck for them. 1154 00:52:00,250 --> 00:52:03,166 I will guarantee you that when, uh, they are polling, 1155 00:52:03,250 --> 00:52:05,083 you know, ten days, two weeks from now, 1156 00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:07,417 that the Democrats will have gained zero momentum 1157 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,041 in their push for impeachment. 1158 00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:10,583 (Trump speaking) 1159 00:52:21,709 --> 00:52:24,875 We'll tell 'em, sir. Well, hey, thank you. 1160 00:52:24,959 --> 00:52:26,583 Oh, Melania said I was handsome. 1161 00:52:26,667 --> 00:52:29,000 You keep telling me that, but she never confirms it. 1162 00:52:29,083 --> 00:52:31,500 (Trump speaking) 1163 00:52:32,333 --> 00:52:33,709 Take care. 1164 00:52:37,375 --> 00:52:39,083 He's very happy. 1165 00:52:41,959 --> 00:52:47,500 ♪ 1166 00:52:52,083 --> 00:52:54,792 Massie: I haven't read the whole Mueller Report. 1167 00:52:54,875 --> 00:52:57,333 I've probably only read about 20 percent of it, 1168 00:52:57,417 --> 00:53:01,917 but I read enough of it to decide that it didn't matter. 1169 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,792 It's a weapon of mass distraction. 1170 00:53:03,875 --> 00:53:08,000 I don't think this is gonna change anything here, really. 1171 00:53:08,083 --> 00:53:09,709 We have wasted a lot of time, 1172 00:53:09,792 --> 00:53:12,625 but that's what Congress sort of does on its own-- 1173 00:53:12,709 --> 00:53:14,417 it wastes time. 1174 00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:16,750 ♪ 1175 00:53:20,583 --> 00:53:23,291 We're at a very important location 1176 00:53:23,375 --> 00:53:25,500 that defines the edge of where, 1177 00:53:25,583 --> 00:53:27,625 uh, Congress does official business, 1178 00:53:27,709 --> 00:53:31,041 and where Congress switches into fundraising mode. 1179 00:53:31,125 --> 00:53:35,125 I can't ask anybody for money on federal property, 1180 00:53:35,208 --> 00:53:37,667 so, when you want a new committee assignment, 1181 00:53:37,750 --> 00:53:40,583 let's say you're tired of being stuck on the Ethics Committee, 1182 00:53:40,667 --> 00:53:42,792 and you want on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, 1183 00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:45,667 the first thing the Speaker is gonna tell you is-- 1184 00:53:45,750 --> 00:53:48,125 They're gonna get out the fundraising numbers and say, 1185 00:53:48,208 --> 00:53:50,834 "You're not doing enough work across the street." 1186 00:53:50,917 --> 00:53:54,208 So when you hear that code sentence, we all know what it means. 1187 00:53:54,291 --> 00:53:57,917 Come down here, cross the street, get a list of rich people, 1188 00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,583 and start begging for money. 1189 00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:01,709 Not for yourself, not for your own reelection, 1190 00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:03,500 but for the party. 1191 00:54:05,125 --> 00:54:07,417 Gaetz: We just concluded our monthly meeting. 1192 00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:09,959 I got the, uh, somewhat unfortunate news that 1193 00:54:10,041 --> 00:54:16,083 I have $124,500 left that I owe to pay the party for my dues. 1194 00:54:16,166 --> 00:54:17,750 And a lot of times they're telling you, 1195 00:54:17,834 --> 00:54:19,375 "Hey, if you're on this committee, 1196 00:54:19,458 --> 00:54:21,458 these are the lobbying groups that you need to go see." 1197 00:54:21,542 --> 00:54:23,417 Or, "These are the lobbying firms that are most likely 1198 00:54:23,500 --> 00:54:25,083 to give to your campaigns." 1199 00:54:25,166 --> 00:54:28,375 Taking just a candid look at where you've told me we are, 1200 00:54:28,458 --> 00:54:31,458 -we will be out of money in a few months. -Wyant: Yeah. 1201 00:54:31,542 --> 00:54:33,333 -We'll be, we'll be broke. -Yes. 1202 00:54:33,417 --> 00:54:36,792 If you make me do the typical Washington thing 1203 00:54:36,875 --> 00:54:38,750 where I have to go and sit with these lobbyists... 1204 00:54:38,834 --> 00:54:40,959 -Yeah. -...and PAC fundraisers, I will quit. 1205 00:54:41,041 --> 00:54:43,083 I really think we need to hire a fundraiser. 1206 00:54:43,166 --> 00:54:45,625 Is there any projection in which, 1207 00:54:45,709 --> 00:54:47,375 if we grow that renewable 1208 00:54:47,458 --> 00:54:49,375 -small dollar donor base, -Yeah. 1209 00:54:49,458 --> 00:54:52,250 -people who give me $50 from, you know-- -Well, that's the whole point. 1210 00:54:52,333 --> 00:54:54,917 The whole point is to one day not need to hire a fundraiser at all. 1211 00:54:55,041 --> 00:54:56,792 It really-- The whole point is to get there, 1212 00:54:56,875 --> 00:54:58,959 but it just takes time, because you need to get that database. 1213 00:54:59,041 --> 00:55:02,458 And at our current operational spend, we'll be broke in a few months. 1214 00:55:02,542 --> 00:55:04,458 -Right. Exactly. -Great talk. 1215 00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:05,834 Yeah, exactly. 1216 00:55:10,959 --> 00:55:14,125 Well, here we are, across the street at the NRCC. 1217 00:55:14,208 --> 00:55:16,291 I'm sort of persona non grata in this building. 1218 00:55:16,375 --> 00:55:19,125 They don't want me in there, because I haven't been doing my work in there 1219 00:55:19,208 --> 00:55:20,834 for the past six years. 1220 00:55:21,542 --> 00:55:22,959 If you go in there, 1221 00:55:23,041 --> 00:55:25,333 you're gonna see Congressmen sitting in cubicles 1222 00:55:25,417 --> 00:55:29,542 going down lists of people who've donated to Republicans before. 1223 00:55:29,625 --> 00:55:31,959 In many cases, cold calling them. 1224 00:55:32,041 --> 00:55:34,959 Basically glorified telemarketers, 1225 00:55:35,041 --> 00:55:39,542 and the same exact thing goes on at the D-triple-C 1226 00:55:39,625 --> 00:55:42,667 as goes on here at the NRCC. 1227 00:55:42,750 --> 00:55:45,333 I'm not gonna lie to you. I crossed the street myself. 1228 00:55:45,417 --> 00:55:48,000 Like, my campaign doesn't run on fairy dust. 1229 00:55:48,083 --> 00:55:51,000 So, even though I don't spend any time there, 1230 00:55:51,083 --> 00:55:53,166 there's another building right next to us 1231 00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:56,125 where I do spend a lot of time wining and dining. 1232 00:55:56,208 --> 00:55:58,583 The difference is, I don't pay the extortion 1233 00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:00,750 that my party asks of me. 1234 00:56:02,959 --> 00:56:05,792 There's somebody doing their work across the street. 1235 00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:08,959 His district borders mine. 1236 00:56:11,583 --> 00:56:15,291 (light guitar music playing) 1237 00:56:21,458 --> 00:56:23,208 I think the topography here 1238 00:56:23,291 --> 00:56:26,542 shaped my thinking about government. 1239 00:56:26,625 --> 00:56:28,125 We're organized in hollers. 1240 00:56:28,208 --> 00:56:31,208 There's a holler, there's a holler. This is a main holler. 1241 00:56:31,291 --> 00:56:34,542 And as long as you're minding your own business in your holler, 1242 00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:37,667 you don't go over in your neighbor's holler and tell them what to do. 1243 00:56:38,208 --> 00:56:39,250 Hey! 1244 00:56:40,291 --> 00:56:41,417 Hey, cows! 1245 00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:43,125 (mooing) 1246 00:56:43,208 --> 00:56:44,917 It's not very Libertarian of somebody 1247 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,583 to throw their trash on my field. 1248 00:56:51,333 --> 00:56:55,458 Oh. They were having a Budweiser here. 1249 00:56:55,542 --> 00:56:57,792 I'm definitely the greenest member of Congress. 1250 00:56:57,875 --> 00:56:59,583 I've put that on my Twitter profile. 1251 00:56:59,667 --> 00:57:03,458 Nobody will even challenge me on that point. 1252 00:57:03,542 --> 00:57:06,000 Everything in my house runs off solar power. 1253 00:57:06,083 --> 00:57:08,000 We're off the grid. 1254 00:57:08,083 --> 00:57:10,625 My whole house right now is running off of 1255 00:57:10,709 --> 00:57:16,792 7,104 little batteries out of a wrecked Tesla model S. 1256 00:57:16,875 --> 00:57:19,041 I hate pollution, okay? 1257 00:57:19,125 --> 00:57:21,333 Lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide... 1258 00:57:21,417 --> 00:57:24,000 All the things that we can prove are bad, 1259 00:57:24,083 --> 00:57:26,709 I, I'm against. 1260 00:57:26,792 --> 00:57:31,792 One of the things that I disagree on, though, is carbon dioxide. 1261 00:57:31,875 --> 00:57:33,834 One of the best things that could happen 1262 00:57:33,917 --> 00:57:36,417 for the life on this farm to flourish 1263 00:57:36,500 --> 00:57:38,542 is that CO2 goes up. 1264 00:57:38,625 --> 00:57:41,625 People forget that. They forget that CO2 is a plant food, 1265 00:57:41,709 --> 00:57:43,625 and we're now calling it a pollutant. 1266 00:57:43,709 --> 00:57:45,583 Interviewer: You don't think that climate change 1267 00:57:45,667 --> 00:57:48,709 is an existential threat to human beings? 1268 00:57:48,792 --> 00:57:53,250 I absolutely don't think that CO2, 1269 00:57:53,333 --> 00:57:55,959 uh, man-made or man-produced CO2, 1270 00:57:56,041 --> 00:57:58,208 is an existential threat to us. 1271 00:57:59,834 --> 00:58:03,834 And even if we thought CO2 was not good for the planet, 1272 00:58:03,917 --> 00:58:06,792 it's probably not the best place to spend your money, 1273 00:58:06,875 --> 00:58:10,250 or to spend other people's money that you're taxing them on. 1274 00:58:10,333 --> 00:58:12,291 Where's the cost benefit? 1275 00:58:12,375 --> 00:58:14,500 Interviewer: What do you say to the people who might say, 1276 00:58:14,583 --> 00:58:16,125 "Oh, well, you're from Kentucky. 1277 00:58:16,208 --> 00:58:18,917 Are you just protecting the coal miners?" 1278 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,291 So, it's true I'm from Kentucky, 1279 00:58:21,375 --> 00:58:25,667 but there's not a single operating coal mine in my Congressional district. 1280 00:58:25,750 --> 00:58:28,083 Do I have a parochial interest 1281 00:58:28,166 --> 00:58:31,583 because of coal-fired electricity generation? 1282 00:58:31,667 --> 00:58:33,041 Yes, I do. 1283 00:58:33,542 --> 00:58:36,166 But we look to the government to solve every problem, 1284 00:58:36,250 --> 00:58:37,834 and I think that's wrong. 1285 00:58:37,917 --> 00:58:42,208 ♪ 1286 00:58:48,417 --> 00:58:50,125 Lessig: In 2010, 1287 00:58:50,208 --> 00:58:51,917 the Koch brothers signaled 1288 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,166 that any Republican who acknowledged climate change 1289 00:58:55,250 --> 00:58:58,166 would be taken out. They'd be primaried. 1290 00:58:58,250 --> 00:59:01,834 And what that demonstrates is the extraordinary power 1291 00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:05,041 of the threat value of money. 1292 00:59:08,959 --> 00:59:11,041 The iceberg effect is 1293 00:59:11,125 --> 00:59:14,333 we see a tiny bit of the contributions on the surface. 1294 00:59:14,417 --> 00:59:17,375 But below the water, there's an extraordinary amount of 1295 00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:19,291 threatened contributions 1296 00:59:19,375 --> 00:59:22,083 that have the effect of disciplining members of Congress, 1297 00:59:22,166 --> 00:59:25,375 and that's what happening with climate change. 1298 00:59:25,458 --> 00:59:28,917 But whether or not the Republicans are more extreme, 1299 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,083 the Democrats are also extremely sensitive, 1300 00:59:32,166 --> 00:59:33,709 and constrained, 1301 00:59:33,792 --> 00:59:36,083 by the way they need to raise money. 1302 00:59:36,166 --> 00:59:39,417 Newscaster: Senate Democrats have a super majority of 60. 1303 00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:42,208 Republicans will be powerless to stop them. 1304 00:59:42,291 --> 00:59:45,375 Lessig: The Democrats couldn't bring climate change legislation 1305 00:59:45,458 --> 00:59:47,250 when they had a super majority 1306 00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:49,792 in the House and in the Senate, 1307 00:59:49,875 --> 00:59:53,625 because they knew the cost from the carbon industries 1308 00:59:53,709 --> 00:59:57,417 jumping in and defeating Democrats would be too great. 1309 00:59:57,500 --> 01:00:00,583 And what we need is an opportunity for Congressmen 1310 01:00:00,667 --> 01:00:04,792 to decide what to do on the basis of what they think is right, 1311 01:00:04,875 --> 01:00:06,875 independent of this anxiety 1312 01:00:06,959 --> 01:00:11,583 that these tiny numbers of very powerful funders 1313 01:00:11,667 --> 01:00:15,166 will make it so that their decision is too costly 1314 01:00:15,250 --> 01:00:17,125 for them and their party. 1315 01:00:19,375 --> 01:00:21,125 Announcer: Chipping away at your rights. 1316 01:00:21,208 --> 01:00:23,542 Chipping away at your freedom. 1317 01:00:23,625 --> 01:00:27,125 And now they're attacking our Second Amendment rights. 1318 01:00:28,250 --> 01:00:30,500 Chipping away at your future. 1319 01:00:30,583 --> 01:00:32,959 But you can stop them right now. 1320 01:00:33,041 --> 01:00:35,792 On November 2nd, vote Ken Buck. 1321 01:00:35,875 --> 01:00:37,959 He defends our Second Amendment rights. 1322 01:00:38,041 --> 01:00:41,834 The NRA Political Victory Fund is responsible for the content of this advertising. 1323 01:00:41,917 --> 01:00:44,125 Sure, I ran for the Senate in 2010, 1324 01:00:44,208 --> 01:00:46,750 and the NRA spent a lot of money in that campaign. 1325 01:00:46,834 --> 01:00:50,125 The truth is that I've never received, um, 1326 01:00:50,208 --> 01:00:52,458 more than one or two percent 1327 01:00:52,542 --> 01:00:56,667 of my total campaign contributions from, uh, the NRA. 1328 01:00:56,750 --> 01:01:00,000 I'm not influenced by anybody in the gun area. 1329 01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:02,834 I am a firm believer in our Second Amendment rights, 1330 01:01:02,917 --> 01:01:05,041 and that's why I vote the way I do. 1331 01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:12,500 I was a district attorney for 10 years, 1332 01:01:12,583 --> 01:01:14,792 and it's the best job I've had. 1333 01:01:14,875 --> 01:01:18,208 As a district attorney, you really get the 30,000-foot view 1334 01:01:18,291 --> 01:01:19,875 of crime in a community, 1335 01:01:19,959 --> 01:01:22,291 and what can you do to solve that crime, 1336 01:01:22,375 --> 01:01:24,834 and to change the way a community looks at crime. 1337 01:01:24,917 --> 01:01:27,083 Man: You wanna shoot bad guys, or you wanna shoot targets, or-- 1338 01:01:27,166 --> 01:01:29,041 -Buck: Bad guys. -Chief of Staff? What do you say? 1339 01:01:29,125 --> 01:01:30,792 -Oh. -Woman: Do you have any terrorists? 1340 01:01:30,875 --> 01:01:33,250 Um, do we have any Osamas left? 1341 01:01:33,333 --> 01:01:36,750 That, that guy looks great. The third from the bottom there looks great. 1342 01:01:38,083 --> 01:01:39,667 I think candidates, 1343 01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:42,542 elected officials, and political parties 1344 01:01:42,625 --> 01:01:47,083 all react to a narrative created by special interest groups. 1345 01:01:47,166 --> 01:01:50,250 And that narrative is often single issue. 1346 01:01:50,333 --> 01:01:52,333 And the narrative is often extreme. 1347 01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:54,875 Woman: The only way we save our country 1348 01:01:54,959 --> 01:01:59,041 and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies 1349 01:01:59,125 --> 01:02:01,250 with the clenched fist of truth. 1350 01:02:01,333 --> 01:02:04,625 I'm the National Rifle Association of America. 1351 01:02:04,709 --> 01:02:07,417 And I'm freedom's safest place. 1352 01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:08,792 (fires) 1353 01:02:08,875 --> 01:02:11,542 (shots firing) 1354 01:02:11,959 --> 01:02:14,417 Man: Boom! That's what I'm talking about. 1355 01:02:14,500 --> 01:02:17,542 Buck: And if you don't conform to that narrative, 1356 01:02:17,625 --> 01:02:19,667 you lose support financially, 1357 01:02:19,750 --> 01:02:22,834 you lose support of a certain group of voters, 1358 01:02:22,917 --> 01:02:24,875 who say, "I'm not gonna vote for that candidate. 1359 01:02:24,959 --> 01:02:27,375 "I want this person who is the most extreme, 1360 01:02:27,458 --> 01:02:30,083 the, the person who's gonna throw out the most red meat." 1361 01:02:30,166 --> 01:02:32,875 So, yes, I think, that, uh, part of the problem 1362 01:02:32,959 --> 01:02:36,000 with nuancing is that people expect to hear red meat, 1363 01:02:36,083 --> 01:02:37,542 or they consider it a weakness. 1364 01:02:37,625 --> 01:02:41,000 (firing) 1365 01:02:44,625 --> 01:02:46,583 Newscaster: Panic in El Paso this morning 1366 01:02:46,667 --> 01:02:48,834 when a day of shopping turned into horror, 1367 01:02:48,917 --> 01:02:50,750 with an active shooter on the loose. 1368 01:02:50,834 --> 01:02:52,667 Newscaster 2 : Law enforcement officials in Texas say 1369 01:02:52,750 --> 01:02:56,125 they believe the attack was motivated by anti-immigrant hatred. 1370 01:02:56,208 --> 01:02:59,792 The weapon used in today's shooting was an AK-47 1371 01:02:59,875 --> 01:03:02,083 semi-automatic assault-style rifle. 1372 01:03:02,458 --> 01:03:05,792 You know, I'm a proud lifetime member of the NRA. 1373 01:03:05,875 --> 01:03:08,125 I'm a gun owner. 1374 01:03:08,208 --> 01:03:10,333 America has nothing to fear 1375 01:03:10,417 --> 01:03:12,417 from law-abiding gun owners. 1376 01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:14,542 Newscaster: Right now, here in studio, 1377 01:03:14,625 --> 01:03:17,166 Congressman Matt Gaetz from, uh, the great state of Florida. 1378 01:03:17,250 --> 01:03:19,834 Gaetz: It is a tough time for our country 1379 01:03:19,917 --> 01:03:22,625 in these instances of great casualty. 1380 01:03:22,709 --> 01:03:24,542 President Trump was right when he said that, 1381 01:03:24,625 --> 01:03:26,333 "It's not the gun that pulls the trigger." 1382 01:03:26,417 --> 01:03:28,208 It is this hate-filled motivation 1383 01:03:28,291 --> 01:03:29,959 that we've gotta get to the bottom of. 1384 01:03:30,041 --> 01:03:32,500 -Man: Always a pleasure. -Thank you guys for having us on. 1385 01:03:32,583 --> 01:03:33,792 -Yeah, thanks again, Todd. -Absolutely. 1386 01:03:33,875 --> 01:03:35,333 Gaetz: All right. Best of luck to you. 1387 01:03:35,417 --> 01:03:36,667 Hi, there. Matt Gaetz. 1388 01:03:36,750 --> 01:03:38,917 -Marlene. Marlene June. -Where are you guys from? 1389 01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:40,792 -Red Bank, New Jersey. -Oh, wonderful. 1390 01:03:40,875 --> 01:03:42,667 -Happy to see you, meet you. -Nice to see you, as well. 1391 01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:46,667 I want to be thin, sexy, happy... Republican. 1392 01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:48,458 I want to be all those things, too. 1393 01:03:48,542 --> 01:03:50,583 -(laughing) -We'll use the soft lens. 1394 01:03:50,667 --> 01:03:52,458 -Marlene June: Thank you so much. -No, thank you guys. 1395 01:03:52,542 --> 01:03:54,875 -Man: Are you gonna do anything? -I appreciate you. Have a great day. 1396 01:03:54,959 --> 01:03:57,834 Man: Or you just gonna do the same thing? Sit on your hands? 1397 01:03:58,458 --> 01:04:01,583 Do something! Stop letting people die all the time 1398 01:04:01,667 --> 01:04:04,083 from these white supremacist terrorists! 1399 01:04:09,125 --> 01:04:11,333 John Sarbanes: If you're angry and passionate 1400 01:04:11,417 --> 01:04:16,083 about the fact that we can't get the most basic, 1401 01:04:16,166 --> 01:04:19,667 common sense gun safety measures in place, 1402 01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:23,000 then be angry about the fact that the gun lobby and the NRA 1403 01:04:23,083 --> 01:04:25,000 have been spending millions of dollars up here 1404 01:04:25,083 --> 01:04:26,667 to advance their agenda. 1405 01:04:26,750 --> 01:04:29,041 That's just connecting the dots. 1406 01:04:29,125 --> 01:04:32,333 You care about tax policy, health care, the environment, 1407 01:04:32,417 --> 01:04:35,000 you gotta care about where the money's coming from. 1408 01:04:35,083 --> 01:04:36,709 And members of the public, 1409 01:04:36,792 --> 01:04:40,500 voters out there, they're starting to connect these dots. 1410 01:04:40,583 --> 01:04:42,917 Somewhere in America, 1411 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000 there's a family in their living room 1412 01:04:45,083 --> 01:04:47,208 hearing another report about how billionaires 1413 01:04:47,291 --> 01:04:50,083 and super PACs and insiders are running Washington, 1414 01:04:50,166 --> 01:04:52,917 and calling the shots on what happens in their lives. 1415 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,709 And they're asking themselves, "Do we matter anymore?" 1416 01:04:56,792 --> 01:05:00,041 H.R. 1 says to that family, 1417 01:05:00,125 --> 01:05:02,417 and millions of families across the country 1418 01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:03,709 who feel the same way, 1419 01:05:03,792 --> 01:05:06,625 "We get it. We hear you. 1420 01:05:06,709 --> 01:05:08,709 We want to change this place." 1421 01:05:08,792 --> 01:05:12,542 Lessig: Nancy Pelosi was convinced by John Sarbanes 1422 01:05:12,625 --> 01:05:16,875 to make H.R. 1 the first thing that Congress took up after 2018. 1423 01:05:16,959 --> 01:05:19,750 And H.R. 1 was the most important 1424 01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:22,417 reform legislation that Congress has considered 1425 01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:25,834 since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 1426 01:05:25,917 --> 01:05:28,417 Sarbanes: The reforms we proposed: 1427 01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:30,875 fixing partisan gerrymandering, 1428 01:05:30,959 --> 01:05:33,417 making it easier for people to vote, 1429 01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:35,875 boosting election security, 1430 01:05:35,959 --> 01:05:39,250 more disclosure on where dark money is coming from, 1431 01:05:39,333 --> 01:05:42,625 public financing to power campaigns in this country, 1432 01:05:42,709 --> 01:05:44,625 so we don't have to go hat in hand 1433 01:05:44,709 --> 01:05:46,625 to lobbyists and big money donors. 1434 01:05:46,709 --> 01:05:51,250 Every single one of those polls at 75, 80, 85 percent in the public, 1435 01:05:51,333 --> 01:05:55,500 so there's a lot of Republicans that support these reforms. 1436 01:05:55,583 --> 01:05:59,792 It's just a matter of getting their representatives in Washington 1437 01:05:59,875 --> 01:06:02,917 to pay more attention to that and deliver on that. 1438 01:06:03,041 --> 01:06:06,333 Newscaster: House Democrats passed sweeping anti-corruption 1439 01:06:06,417 --> 01:06:08,291 and voting rights legislation, 1440 01:06:08,375 --> 01:06:13,458 234 to 193 on party lines. 1441 01:06:13,542 --> 01:06:16,458 Massie: There are these messaging bills, like H.R. 1, 1442 01:06:16,542 --> 01:06:18,792 where the party in power in the House 1443 01:06:18,875 --> 01:06:21,625 never really intends for them to pass the Senate. 1444 01:06:21,709 --> 01:06:24,583 They're just trying to send a message. 1445 01:06:24,667 --> 01:06:26,625 Buck: It was a Democrat bill 1446 01:06:26,709 --> 01:06:29,834 that focused on getting folks that had low turnout 1447 01:06:29,917 --> 01:06:32,166 to turn out to vote, because they believe that 1448 01:06:32,250 --> 01:06:35,208 if they could turn out those voters, they would win more elections. 1449 01:06:36,375 --> 01:06:37,834 Gaetz: I voted against H.R. 1 1450 01:06:37,917 --> 01:06:41,250 because I do not support public financing of campaigns. 1451 01:06:41,333 --> 01:06:43,834 It is taking money away from taxpayers 1452 01:06:43,917 --> 01:06:48,375 to fund efforts that annoy the shit out of taxpayers. 1453 01:06:48,458 --> 01:06:52,166 Lessig: If you are not willing to take on the role of money 1454 01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:54,291 in the election of members to Congress, 1455 01:06:54,375 --> 01:06:56,333 you're not a serious reformer. 1456 01:06:56,417 --> 01:06:58,625 Like, you can call yourself a reformer. 1457 01:06:58,709 --> 01:07:00,166 But you're not changing anything 1458 01:07:00,250 --> 01:07:03,667 if you don't change the core dynamic of incentives 1459 01:07:03,750 --> 01:07:05,417 for electing people into Congress. 1460 01:07:05,500 --> 01:07:07,834 A party line vote, Republicans have been killing it, 1461 01:07:07,917 --> 01:07:10,166 noting it would use taxpayer dollars 1462 01:07:10,250 --> 01:07:11,834 to help fund political campaigns. 1463 01:07:11,917 --> 01:07:13,375 Majority leader Mitch McConnell says 1464 01:07:13,458 --> 01:07:15,333 it's dead on arrival in the Senate. 1465 01:07:15,417 --> 01:07:16,667 A power grab 1466 01:07:16,750 --> 01:07:18,959 is smelling more and more 1467 01:07:19,041 --> 01:07:21,667 like exactly what it is. 1468 01:07:21,750 --> 01:07:26,166 Lessig: Mitch McConnell called H.R. 1 a Democratic power grab. 1469 01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:31,041 And it is, in a small "d," democratic sense, 1470 01:07:31,125 --> 01:07:33,500 because the existing system we have right now 1471 01:07:33,583 --> 01:07:37,625 disables incredibly important swaths of Americans 1472 01:07:37,709 --> 01:07:40,166 from being able to participate equally 1473 01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:42,083 in our political system. 1474 01:07:42,166 --> 01:07:45,542 Pelosi: H.R. 1 restores the people's faith 1475 01:07:45,625 --> 01:07:48,625 that government works for the people's interest. 1476 01:07:48,709 --> 01:07:51,291 Not the special interests. 1477 01:07:51,375 --> 01:07:53,417 I've been critical of Nancy Pelosi. 1478 01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:57,875 I think in many ways, she practiced exactly the kind of corruption 1479 01:07:57,959 --> 01:08:00,083 that I care about addressing. 1480 01:08:00,166 --> 01:08:02,291 I don't think she was ever personally corrupt. 1481 01:08:02,375 --> 01:08:05,542 But she was one of the biggest fundraisers in Congress. 1482 01:08:05,625 --> 01:08:08,583 But I know that many in that Democratic caucus 1483 01:08:08,667 --> 01:08:11,417 did not want to vote in favor of H.R. 1. 1484 01:08:11,500 --> 01:08:14,709 And she basically made it a requirement. 1485 01:08:14,792 --> 01:08:17,250 Sarbanes: The hardest thing in the world to do 1486 01:08:17,333 --> 01:08:20,375 would be to get these reforms passed. 1487 01:08:20,458 --> 01:08:23,834 Even if Democrats end up getting the opportunity 1488 01:08:23,917 --> 01:08:27,083 to do it across the Capitol and in the White House, 1489 01:08:27,166 --> 01:08:30,417 because it's human nature to feel like 1490 01:08:30,500 --> 01:08:33,625 if you're in control, order has been restored, 1491 01:08:33,709 --> 01:08:36,917 and maybe you don't have to go do all those dramatic things 1492 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,750 that you talked about. 1493 01:08:38,834 --> 01:08:42,250 But the power of this message, as it's been used, 1494 01:08:42,333 --> 01:08:44,917 this fighting corruption, fixing democracy, 1495 01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,208 draining the swamp, whatever you want to call it, 1496 01:08:47,291 --> 01:08:50,709 the electoral power of that is a validation 1497 01:08:50,792 --> 01:08:53,291 that the public across the spectrum 1498 01:08:53,375 --> 01:08:55,083 wants to see these changes. 1499 01:08:55,166 --> 01:08:57,667 (cheering and applause) 1500 01:08:57,750 --> 01:09:00,250 Trump: The special interests, Wall Street, 1501 01:09:00,333 --> 01:09:02,250 the career politicians... 1502 01:09:02,333 --> 01:09:03,834 The system is rigged, 1503 01:09:03,917 --> 01:09:06,000 and I've been saying it for a long time. 1504 01:09:06,083 --> 01:09:08,834 The super PACs are a scam. 1505 01:09:08,917 --> 01:09:10,875 They have total control over the candidates. 1506 01:09:10,959 --> 01:09:13,458 These interests have rigged 1507 01:09:13,542 --> 01:09:15,792 our political and economic system 1508 01:09:15,875 --> 01:09:18,333 for their exclusive benefit. 1509 01:09:18,417 --> 01:09:21,792 But with your help, we're going to beat the system, 1510 01:09:21,875 --> 01:09:24,458 and we're gonna un-rig the system. 1511 01:09:24,542 --> 01:09:26,375 John Roberts: Congratulations, Mr. President. 1512 01:09:28,542 --> 01:09:31,709 Lesley Stahl: You said that lobbyists own politicians 1513 01:09:31,792 --> 01:09:33,125 because they give them money. 1514 01:09:33,208 --> 01:09:35,333 -You admitted you used to do it yourself. -Sure. 1515 01:09:35,417 --> 01:09:39,000 But your own transition team, filled with lobbyists. 1516 01:09:39,083 --> 01:09:40,500 Everybody's a lobbyist down there. 1517 01:09:40,583 --> 01:09:41,667 -That's what they are. They're lobbyists -No, wait! 1518 01:09:41,750 --> 01:09:43,291 On your own transition team-- 1519 01:09:43,375 --> 01:09:45,000 We're trying to clean up Washington. Look-- 1520 01:09:45,083 --> 01:09:46,250 How can you clean it up-- 1521 01:09:46,333 --> 01:09:48,333 Everything-- everything down there... 1522 01:09:48,417 --> 01:09:51,458 There are no people. They're all people that work-- 1523 01:09:51,542 --> 01:09:53,500 That's the problem with the system. 1524 01:09:53,583 --> 01:09:57,250 Interviewer: What has President Trump done to drain the swamp? 1525 01:09:59,125 --> 01:10:03,291 President Trump's most, I think, uh, 1526 01:10:03,375 --> 01:10:06,041 antiseptic impact on the swamp 1527 01:10:06,125 --> 01:10:07,834 has come through a mentality 1528 01:10:07,917 --> 01:10:11,834 that the professional class around here is not in charge anymore. 1529 01:10:11,917 --> 01:10:13,875 Interviewer: But we're talking about draining the swamp. 1530 01:10:13,959 --> 01:10:17,875 I thought he was talking about getting rid of the lobbyists 1531 01:10:17,959 --> 01:10:20,125 and special interests' hold on this town. 1532 01:10:20,208 --> 01:10:22,333 With President Trump in office, 1533 01:10:22,417 --> 01:10:24,500 the lobbyists and special interests 1534 01:10:24,583 --> 01:10:26,417 have never been less empowered. 1535 01:10:26,500 --> 01:10:29,542 Reporter 1: President Trump said that he would "drain the swamp," 1536 01:10:29,625 --> 01:10:33,250 taking power away from Washington lobbyists and special interests. 1537 01:10:33,333 --> 01:10:37,041 Now, more of them have seats at his table in his cabinet. 1538 01:10:37,125 --> 01:10:40,500 Reporter 2: In total, more than 300 lobbyists 1539 01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:42,875 now work in the Trump administration, 1540 01:10:42,959 --> 01:10:46,333 many overseeing the industries they used to lobby for. 1541 01:10:46,417 --> 01:10:48,792 Reporter 3: They've essentially sold out government agencies, 1542 01:10:48,875 --> 01:10:50,500 and the White House, to industry. 1543 01:10:50,583 --> 01:10:53,125 Reporter 4: Wall Street loves Donald Trump. 1544 01:10:53,208 --> 01:10:56,083 Reporter 5: Big money contributions from friendly donors 1545 01:10:56,166 --> 01:10:57,875 are paying off for them. 1546 01:10:57,959 --> 01:10:59,500 Reporter 6: Large political contributors 1547 01:10:59,583 --> 01:11:01,083 buy access to President Trump 1548 01:11:01,166 --> 01:11:04,250 using political contributions to Trump's super PAC... 1549 01:11:04,333 --> 01:11:06,375 Reporter 7: Trump businesses are making a killing 1550 01:11:06,458 --> 01:11:08,792 from political groups and federal agencies. 1551 01:11:08,875 --> 01:11:12,208 Reporter 8: President Trump's landmark Washington, DC, hotel. 1552 01:11:12,291 --> 01:11:14,250 It's been a hot spot for lobbyists 1553 01:11:14,333 --> 01:11:17,709 who want to gain favor with the Trump administration. 1554 01:11:17,792 --> 01:11:21,291 But if you look at drain the swamp, I am draining the swamp. 1555 01:11:21,375 --> 01:11:23,000 Thank you very much. 1556 01:11:32,583 --> 01:11:35,417 So what are you hearing about our amendment? 1557 01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:38,375 Khanna: That it's still a little bit uphill, 1558 01:11:38,458 --> 01:11:40,125 but, uh, they're pushing it. 1559 01:11:40,208 --> 01:11:42,125 -What are you hearing on your side? -Same thing. 1560 01:11:42,208 --> 01:11:46,709 I'm hearing that there are definitely some members of the war lobby 1561 01:11:46,792 --> 01:11:48,959 who are singularly focused on 1562 01:11:49,041 --> 01:11:51,458 ensuring that our work product's not included. 1563 01:11:51,542 --> 01:11:53,959 Gaetz: The Khanna-Gaetz amendment passed 1564 01:11:54,041 --> 01:11:55,500 in the House of Representatives. 1565 01:11:55,583 --> 01:11:57,333 Woman: The "yeas" are 251, 1566 01:11:57,417 --> 01:11:59,041 and the "nays" are 170. 1567 01:11:59,125 --> 01:12:00,542 The amendment is adopted. 1568 01:12:00,625 --> 01:12:02,667 Gaetz: We got essentially every Democrat vote, 1569 01:12:02,750 --> 01:12:05,375 and we got 27 Republicans to vote for it, 1570 01:12:05,458 --> 01:12:08,417 so it is in the House version of the NDAA, 1571 01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:10,625 and when it was voted on in the Senate, 1572 01:12:10,709 --> 01:12:14,333 we got 50 votes, and there were fewer than 50 votes against it. 1573 01:12:14,417 --> 01:12:17,458 But in the crazy rules of the United States Senate, 1574 01:12:17,542 --> 01:12:20,583 even when you get the most votes, you can still lose 1575 01:12:20,667 --> 01:12:22,834 if you have not reached a 60-vote threshold. 1576 01:12:22,917 --> 01:12:24,959 And we're making the case that 1577 01:12:25,041 --> 01:12:28,583 because of the broad bipartisan support of Khanna-Gaetz in the House, 1578 01:12:28,667 --> 01:12:31,208 and because more people voted for it than against it in the Senate, 1579 01:12:31,291 --> 01:12:34,542 it should absolutely be presented to the President for his signature. 1580 01:12:34,625 --> 01:12:37,792 Where has McConnell traditionally been on these war powers issues? 1581 01:12:37,875 --> 01:12:41,667 I think the best guess of where he's gonna be on this issue 1582 01:12:41,750 --> 01:12:44,834 is, uh, where the President wants him to be on this issue. 1583 01:12:44,917 --> 01:12:46,583 And the President sees this 1584 01:12:46,667 --> 01:12:49,333 as an important part of his rebuilding the military, 1585 01:12:49,417 --> 01:12:51,583 and he's not gonna send the signal to Mitch McConnell to, 1586 01:12:51,667 --> 01:12:53,417 to, uh, work with us on this. 1587 01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:56,083 Huh. 1588 01:12:56,166 --> 01:12:57,917 Trump: This destructive cycle 1589 01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,500 of intervention and chaos 1590 01:13:00,583 --> 01:13:04,291 must finally, folks, come to an end. 1591 01:13:04,375 --> 01:13:05,834 Come to an end. 1592 01:13:05,917 --> 01:13:08,250 We need to ask those who voted for the war 1593 01:13:08,333 --> 01:13:11,208 how can you give the President a blank check, 1594 01:13:11,291 --> 01:13:13,834 and then act surprised when he cashes it? 1595 01:13:13,917 --> 01:13:16,542 We keep trying to elect Presidents to end wars. 1596 01:13:16,625 --> 01:13:18,500 It's no coincidence that Donald Trump 1597 01:13:18,583 --> 01:13:20,458 became President in the Republican field. 1598 01:13:20,542 --> 01:13:23,125 He said that the war in Iraq was a blunder 1599 01:13:23,208 --> 01:13:24,458 in the Republican primary. 1600 01:13:24,542 --> 01:13:28,333 The war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. 1601 01:13:28,417 --> 01:13:31,542 And yet, we've been too slow to roll back these wars. 1602 01:13:31,625 --> 01:13:33,500 And I think we need a Congress 1603 01:13:33,583 --> 01:13:37,000 willing to stand up to a President, regardless of party. 1604 01:13:37,083 --> 01:13:40,709 Massie: It would be a very solid brick in the wall 1605 01:13:40,792 --> 01:13:42,583 in reestablishing 1606 01:13:42,667 --> 01:13:44,500 our Congressional war powers 1607 01:13:44,583 --> 01:13:46,500 if something like Ro Khanna's amendment 1608 01:13:46,583 --> 01:13:51,250 could get placed in the National Defense Authorization Act. 1609 01:13:51,333 --> 01:13:54,583 But it always feels like Charlie Brown and Lucy. 1610 01:13:54,667 --> 01:13:57,917 We get ready to kick the football, and Lucy pulls it away. 1611 01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,625 Charlie Brown: (screams) Ugh! 1612 01:13:59,709 --> 01:14:01,542 -(thuds) -(grunts) 1613 01:14:03,083 --> 01:14:08,166 ♪ 1614 01:14:09,875 --> 01:14:12,917 Announcer: This is an "ABC News" Special Report. 1615 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,291 George Stephanopoulos: Good afternoon. 1616 01:14:14,375 --> 01:14:15,709 We're coming on the air right now 1617 01:14:15,792 --> 01:14:17,750 with major breaking news from Capitol Hill. 1618 01:14:17,834 --> 01:14:20,709 The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made that dramatic shift 1619 01:14:20,792 --> 01:14:23,917 to decide to open a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump. 1620 01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,041 It comes in the wake of President Trump's confirmation 1621 01:14:27,125 --> 01:14:29,291 that he withheld military aid from Ukraine 1622 01:14:29,375 --> 01:14:31,750 about a week before a July 25th phone call 1623 01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:33,583 with the Ukrainian President, 1624 01:14:33,667 --> 01:14:36,291 where he was reported to have encouraged the Ukrainian President 1625 01:14:36,375 --> 01:14:39,208 to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, 1626 01:14:39,291 --> 01:14:41,458 who had business interests in the Ukraine. 1627 01:14:41,542 --> 01:14:45,291 Newscaster: Zelensky was interested in Javelin anti-tank missiles 1628 01:14:45,375 --> 01:14:48,583 to defend himself from Russian-backed rebels. 1629 01:14:48,667 --> 01:14:50,333 Mr. Trump replied, 1630 01:14:50,417 --> 01:14:52,959 "I would like you to do us a favor, though." 1631 01:14:53,041 --> 01:14:54,875 What you just described is a quid pro quo. 1632 01:14:54,959 --> 01:14:57,041 We do that all the time. Get over it. 1633 01:14:57,125 --> 01:15:00,834 The fact that Trump called Zelensky a day after Mueller testified, 1634 01:15:00,917 --> 01:15:02,583 tells you everything you need to know 1635 01:15:02,667 --> 01:15:04,542 about the hubris of this President. 1636 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:07,667 -He's very happy. -Pelosi: The President of the United States 1637 01:15:07,750 --> 01:15:09,458 used taxpayer dollars 1638 01:15:09,542 --> 01:15:12,166 to shake down the leader of another country 1639 01:15:12,250 --> 01:15:14,417 for his own political gain. 1640 01:15:17,750 --> 01:15:20,834 Gaetz: Why are Nancy Pelosi and today's House Democrats 1641 01:15:20,917 --> 01:15:24,208 not giving President Trump the same due process rights 1642 01:15:24,291 --> 01:15:26,166 that Newt Gingrich and Republicans 1643 01:15:26,250 --> 01:15:29,000 gave to Bill Clinton during his impeachment process? 1644 01:15:29,083 --> 01:15:32,667 Instead, what you see are secret hearings, secret depositions, 1645 01:15:32,750 --> 01:15:36,583 and then selective leaks to try to fit a predetermined narrative. 1646 01:15:36,667 --> 01:15:38,667 What we see in this impeachment 1647 01:15:38,750 --> 01:15:40,166 is a kangaroo court. 1648 01:15:40,250 --> 01:15:42,000 And Chairman Schiff is acting like 1649 01:15:42,083 --> 01:15:43,542 a malicious Captain Kangaroo. 1650 01:15:43,625 --> 01:15:47,500 "Chairman Schiff is acting like a malicious Captain Kangaroo." 1651 01:15:47,583 --> 01:15:51,417 Trump's being railroaded by the terrifying Thomas the Tank engine. 1652 01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:53,917 This whole thing is a load of Howdy Doody, 1653 01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,500 and is brought to you by the letters "F" and "U." 1654 01:16:02,291 --> 01:16:04,417 Gaetz: A lot of younger Republicans 1655 01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:05,917 who've just been elected come to me, 1656 01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,166 asking for advice about how to grow their profile 1657 01:16:09,250 --> 01:16:12,875 and become more proficient in media, and online. 1658 01:16:12,959 --> 01:16:15,083 And I tell 'em at the outset, 1659 01:16:15,166 --> 01:16:17,792 "You make yourself a target when you live like I live." 1660 01:16:17,875 --> 01:16:20,875 I mean, if you want to really get in the fight, 1661 01:16:20,959 --> 01:16:23,375 there's going to be some return fire. 1662 01:16:23,458 --> 01:16:27,500 And most of the time, when I let folks know that that's the case, 1663 01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,792 they're not interested in any more advice about how to do it. 1664 01:16:32,500 --> 01:16:35,959 I, uh, don't go out to eat much, because... 1665 01:16:36,041 --> 01:16:38,291 in this town, you know, if you go out to eat, 1666 01:16:38,375 --> 01:16:40,375 it's always the opportunity, for... 1667 01:16:40,458 --> 01:16:43,500 you know, someone with an iPhone and an axe to grind 1668 01:16:43,583 --> 01:16:46,250 to come up and try to have their viral moment 1669 01:16:46,333 --> 01:16:47,917 at your expense, so... 1670 01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,000 Most nights, it's not, uh, any fancy restaurant. 1671 01:16:51,083 --> 01:16:52,792 It's Uber Eats. 1672 01:16:52,875 --> 01:16:56,041 And, uh, I'm feeling lamb chops tonight. 1673 01:16:56,125 --> 01:16:58,166 Thanks, I appreciate it. 1674 01:16:59,333 --> 01:17:01,000 (elevator dings) 1675 01:17:02,166 --> 01:17:04,041 This Ukraine stuff 1676 01:17:04,125 --> 01:17:06,917 is not impeachable conduct. 1677 01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:10,667 But it is a different dynamic to litigate for us 1678 01:17:10,750 --> 01:17:15,166 as members of Congress than the Russia probe, 1679 01:17:15,250 --> 01:17:19,125 because so many of us were involved in the President's campaign. 1680 01:17:19,208 --> 01:17:22,959 Gotta watch a little CNN. Opposition research. 1681 01:17:23,041 --> 01:17:27,959 In 2016, I was speaking at Trump rallies all over the country, 1682 01:17:28,041 --> 01:17:29,792 I was communicating with people who were 1683 01:17:29,875 --> 01:17:32,709 running the President's campaign in various states. 1684 01:17:32,792 --> 01:17:35,792 And so I had an insight that this was not someone who was engaged 1685 01:17:35,875 --> 01:17:38,750 in some vast criminal conspiracy with the Russian Federation 1686 01:17:38,834 --> 01:17:41,542 to negatively impact the US election. 1687 01:17:42,542 --> 01:17:44,250 But this ain't Russia. 1688 01:17:49,333 --> 01:17:52,083 (TV playing indistinctly) 1689 01:17:54,667 --> 01:17:56,917 Hey, Mr. President. It's Matt Gaetz. 1690 01:17:58,875 --> 01:18:01,375 I don't need anything, sir. Just calling to tell you 1691 01:18:01,458 --> 01:18:02,667 you did a great job today. 1692 01:18:02,750 --> 01:18:04,333 Don't let these people get you down. 1693 01:18:04,417 --> 01:18:06,667 We're gonna keep fighting for you with all we got. 1694 01:18:06,750 --> 01:18:08,750 (Trump speaking) 1695 01:18:08,834 --> 01:18:10,375 Well, thank you. 1696 01:18:11,959 --> 01:18:14,250 (Trump speaking) 1697 01:18:19,083 --> 01:18:20,542 (chuckles) 1698 01:18:23,834 --> 01:18:25,291 All right. 1699 01:18:39,250 --> 01:18:40,375 Yeah. 1700 01:18:40,458 --> 01:18:42,792 Well, wait till you see what we got for tomorrow. 1701 01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:53,625 Right. 1702 01:18:59,625 --> 01:19:04,291 Well, and, and Zelensky was shit-talking Macron and Merkel. 1703 01:19:05,250 --> 01:19:07,917 About how they don't do anything, and it's the United States, 1704 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,709 it's your movement to drain the swamp 1705 01:19:09,792 --> 01:19:12,458 that inspired Ukraine to better days. 1706 01:19:28,375 --> 01:19:31,208 Thank you. You're the best, Mr. President. 1707 01:19:32,041 --> 01:19:33,333 Will do. 1708 01:19:33,959 --> 01:19:35,875 We will. See you. 1709 01:19:47,166 --> 01:19:49,834 (TV unmutes) 1710 01:19:51,875 --> 01:19:56,250 ♪ 1711 01:19:56,333 --> 01:19:57,834 Gaetz: Our central point is that 1712 01:19:57,917 --> 01:19:59,959 regardless of how people feel about the President, 1713 01:20:00,041 --> 01:20:01,500 this is no way to run a railroad. 1714 01:20:01,583 --> 01:20:03,291 You know, that we should not be, uh, 1715 01:20:03,375 --> 01:20:06,166 hiding things from the American people, and from members of Congress. 1716 01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:08,792 So, uh, those who want to say a piece, say that. 1717 01:20:08,875 --> 01:20:10,166 Just kind of keep on that message. 1718 01:20:10,250 --> 01:20:12,625 And then, after we're done, we roll back there. 1719 01:20:12,709 --> 01:20:14,875 Andy Biggs: It's another moment in history, actually. 1720 01:20:14,959 --> 01:20:18,458 Ten years from now, you'll be able to say, we went down there. 1721 01:20:18,542 --> 01:20:19,667 We demanded it. 1722 01:20:19,750 --> 01:20:21,834 And we're not-- And we're not allowed in. 1723 01:20:21,917 --> 01:20:23,625 Yeah, we weren't allowed in. 1724 01:20:23,709 --> 01:20:25,417 -Let's do it! -(indistinct chatter) 1725 01:20:28,208 --> 01:20:30,959 Gaetz: I'm gathered here with dozens 1726 01:20:31,041 --> 01:20:33,709 of my Congressional colleagues 1727 01:20:33,792 --> 01:20:35,834 in the basement of the Capitol. 1728 01:20:35,917 --> 01:20:37,458 because if behind those doors, 1729 01:20:37,542 --> 01:20:40,166 they intend to overturn the results 1730 01:20:40,250 --> 01:20:42,291 of an American Presidential election, 1731 01:20:42,375 --> 01:20:44,125 we want to know what's going on. 1732 01:20:44,208 --> 01:20:46,166 And so we're gonna try to go in there 1733 01:20:46,250 --> 01:20:48,458 on behalf of the millions of Americans 1734 01:20:48,542 --> 01:20:49,792 that we represent 1735 01:20:49,875 --> 01:20:52,166 that want to see this Congress working for them, 1736 01:20:52,250 --> 01:20:54,834 and not obsessed with attacking a President 1737 01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:58,417 who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment. 1738 01:20:58,500 --> 01:21:01,208 We're gonna go, and see if we can get inside. So... 1739 01:21:01,291 --> 01:21:03,542 Let's, uh... Let's see if we can get in. 1740 01:21:03,625 --> 01:21:05,166 Newscaster: Congressional Republicans 1741 01:21:05,250 --> 01:21:09,208 stormed this closed-door deposition in a secure room 1742 01:21:09,291 --> 01:21:11,125 and disrupted the testimony 1743 01:21:11,208 --> 01:21:12,917 of the Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary. 1744 01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,000 Congressman: Do it in front of everybody! 1745 01:21:15,083 --> 01:21:17,750 In public! In public! 1746 01:21:17,834 --> 01:21:20,709 We just want to see what you're doing! Why are you hiding? 1747 01:21:20,792 --> 01:21:22,917 (indistinct chatter) 1748 01:21:23,750 --> 01:21:26,166 There's three doors to get into the actual SCIF, 1749 01:21:26,250 --> 01:21:27,542 into the actual intel committee. 1750 01:21:27,625 --> 01:21:28,709 So after the press conference 1751 01:21:28,792 --> 01:21:30,250 they all went to the second door, 1752 01:21:30,333 --> 01:21:31,875 which is where the police officer actually is, 1753 01:21:31,959 --> 01:21:33,083 and he won't let anyone in. 1754 01:21:33,166 --> 01:21:35,000 But then they start chanting, "Let us in," 1755 01:21:35,083 --> 01:21:36,208 over and over again. 1756 01:21:36,291 --> 01:21:37,875 And then they kind of bum-rush the door, 1757 01:21:37,959 --> 01:21:40,667 to where all the members just kind of went past the police officer, 1758 01:21:40,750 --> 01:21:42,458 and they weren't, obviously, going to arrest them. 1759 01:21:42,542 --> 01:21:44,166 Newscaster: It isn't over yet. 1760 01:21:44,250 --> 01:21:47,375 Those Republicans are still in that secure room, 1761 01:21:47,458 --> 01:21:49,041 refusing to leave. 1762 01:21:49,125 --> 01:21:52,709 One Democratic Congressman tells CNN that snacks were brought in, 1763 01:21:52,792 --> 01:21:55,542 and they are now eating pizza. 1764 01:21:55,625 --> 01:21:58,959 ♪ 1765 01:22:04,166 --> 01:22:08,875 We're happy that everything turned out favorably, and... 1766 01:22:08,959 --> 01:22:11,083 -Khanna: Making news all over the place. -Gaetz: Hey, man. 1767 01:22:11,166 --> 01:22:13,125 Um, I, uh, I talked to Smith, 1768 01:22:13,208 --> 01:22:15,250 and, uh, you know, I mean... 1769 01:22:15,333 --> 01:22:17,208 -Yeah. -News looks bad. 1770 01:22:17,291 --> 01:22:19,542 -Does it? -Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they're, like, 1771 01:22:19,625 --> 01:22:21,750 getting ready to give up fighting or what, but, 1772 01:22:21,834 --> 01:22:23,625 -doesn't look good. -I haven't, I haven't heard. 1773 01:22:23,709 --> 01:22:25,375 -Yeah, he just said that-- -He keeps telling me that 1774 01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:27,125 -they're still fighting, pushing, so-- -Yeah. 1775 01:22:27,208 --> 01:22:29,083 -Maybe he's just trying to encourage me. -(laughs) 1776 01:22:29,166 --> 01:22:30,750 -All right. -See you, Ro. 1777 01:22:30,834 --> 01:22:33,834 Well, it was a scene not in the United States Congress, 1778 01:22:33,917 --> 01:22:35,208 but at a fraternity. 1779 01:22:35,291 --> 01:22:38,083 I mean, you had about 20 Republicans come in. 1780 01:22:38,166 --> 01:22:40,208 They were yelling, they brought in 1781 01:22:40,291 --> 01:22:41,750 their phones into the SCIF, 1782 01:22:41,834 --> 01:22:44,458 which everyone knows is against, uh, the law. 1783 01:22:44,542 --> 01:22:48,333 Uh, and then they started ordering pizza, and there were pizza boxes 1784 01:22:48,417 --> 01:22:50,250 strewn all over the SCIF. 1785 01:22:50,333 --> 01:22:51,583 I mean, they didn't even clean up. 1786 01:22:51,667 --> 01:22:53,625 I mean, it was really just an embarrassment. 1787 01:22:53,709 --> 01:22:56,458 And by the way, Republicans are in that room, 1788 01:22:56,542 --> 01:22:59,834 they get to ask questions, they get equal time as the Democrats, 1789 01:22:59,917 --> 01:23:01,792 so it's the height of hypocrisy 1790 01:23:01,875 --> 01:23:03,834 for Republicans to complain. 1791 01:23:04,875 --> 01:23:06,333 Passerby 1: Shame! 1792 01:23:09,959 --> 01:23:12,083 Passerby 2: What an asshole. 1793 01:23:14,208 --> 01:23:15,834 TMZ reporter: You know, you just single-handedly 1794 01:23:15,917 --> 01:23:19,291 led a group to shut down this entire impeachment investigation. 1795 01:23:19,375 --> 01:23:21,208 What-- What were you thinking, man? 1796 01:23:21,291 --> 01:23:23,667 We were, uh, like, you know, the 300, 1797 01:23:23,750 --> 01:23:26,375 standing in the breach, to try to stop the radical left 1798 01:23:26,458 --> 01:23:28,667 from starm-- storming over our democracy. 1799 01:23:28,750 --> 01:23:31,166 Did the President tell you guys to do this or did you decide on your own? 1800 01:23:31,250 --> 01:23:33,458 No, I, uh, haven't chatted with the President about it, 1801 01:23:33,542 --> 01:23:36,792 thought I suspect he may have a view he might want to share after today. 1802 01:23:36,875 --> 01:23:38,667 Lou Dobbs: The President tweeted this: 1803 01:23:38,750 --> 01:23:42,208 "Thank you to House Republicans for being tough, smart, 1804 01:23:42,291 --> 01:23:44,208 "and understanding in detail 1805 01:23:44,291 --> 01:23:47,250 the greatest witch hunt in American history." 1806 01:23:48,125 --> 01:23:50,500 ♪ 1807 01:23:50,583 --> 01:23:53,959 Khanna: You know, when you read Madison's "Federalist 51," 1808 01:23:54,041 --> 01:23:57,000 his theory of separation of powers was very simple. 1809 01:23:57,083 --> 01:23:59,500 He said, "Politicians are ambitious, 1810 01:23:59,583 --> 01:24:02,166 and ambition will counteract ambition." 1811 01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:05,208 You don't really have to worry about the President being too powerful, 1812 01:24:05,291 --> 01:24:07,583 because there will be ambitious people in Congress. 1813 01:24:07,667 --> 01:24:09,250 They'll want to have their own power, 1814 01:24:09,333 --> 01:24:11,709 and they'll make sure that they put a check 1815 01:24:11,792 --> 01:24:13,500 on the Presidency. 1816 01:24:13,583 --> 01:24:15,333 Madison didn't count on partisanship. 1817 01:24:15,417 --> 01:24:18,542 He didn't anticipate that people would be less loyal 1818 01:24:18,625 --> 01:24:22,542 to the institution they serve in and more loyal to their party. 1819 01:24:22,625 --> 01:24:26,875 And what you've seen now is a total abdication by Republicans 1820 01:24:26,959 --> 01:24:31,375 of willingness to hold the President accountable. 1821 01:24:31,458 --> 01:24:35,250 Gaetz: I didn't run as someone to unify Washington. 1822 01:24:35,333 --> 01:24:36,917 I ran to change Washington. 1823 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,834 And I do believe that there is a consensus in the country 1824 01:24:40,917 --> 01:24:42,291 that that is necessary. 1825 01:24:42,375 --> 01:24:45,166 Interviewer: Do you think that you exacerbate partisanship? 1826 01:24:45,625 --> 01:24:47,417 (laughs) Uh... 1827 01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:51,041 You know, I, I, I'm sure that there are days 1828 01:24:51,125 --> 01:24:53,250 when I advance partisanship. 1829 01:24:53,333 --> 01:24:56,417 I think there are days when I advance bipartisanship. 1830 01:24:56,500 --> 01:24:59,875 I don't think you sort of choose one style or the other. 1831 01:24:59,959 --> 01:25:03,333 I think you can be partisan, bipartisan fluid. 1832 01:25:03,917 --> 01:25:07,750 (wind whistling) 1833 01:25:07,834 --> 01:25:10,750 Pelosi: Today, the House takes the next step forward 1834 01:25:10,834 --> 01:25:12,750 as we establish the procedures 1835 01:25:12,834 --> 01:25:14,250 for open hearings 1836 01:25:14,333 --> 01:25:16,917 conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, 1837 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,583 so that the public can see the facts for themselves. 1838 01:25:20,667 --> 01:25:23,250 Jackie Speier (on TV): You have endured and orchestrated 1839 01:25:23,333 --> 01:25:24,917 character assassination 1840 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,917 that was laced with enormous campaign contributions 1841 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:31,542 to the President's reelection campaign. 1842 01:25:31,625 --> 01:25:34,250 Gaetz: Honestly, I did not sleep last night. 1843 01:25:34,333 --> 01:25:37,041 So frustrated that I am not able to participate 1844 01:25:37,125 --> 01:25:38,750 in these hearings as a questioner. 1845 01:25:38,834 --> 01:25:42,125 If we were doing this with all cards face up as a fair process, 1846 01:25:42,208 --> 01:25:45,375 this would actually be going on in the House Judiciary Committee where I serve. 1847 01:25:45,458 --> 01:25:48,041 But because we kicked the Democrats' ass on Mueller, 1848 01:25:48,125 --> 01:25:50,500 they've moved to the Intelligence Committee. 1849 01:25:50,583 --> 01:25:53,792 You confirmed to President Trump that you were in 1850 01:25:53,875 --> 01:25:55,917 Ukraine at the time. 1851 01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:59,917 And that President Zelensky, quote, "Loves your ass." Unquote. 1852 01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,792 Do you recall saying that? 1853 01:26:01,875 --> 01:26:04,000 Yeah, it sounds like something I would say. 1854 01:26:04,083 --> 01:26:05,750 (laughs) 1855 01:26:05,834 --> 01:26:07,417 Massie: Can you get a number from Jonathan 1856 01:26:07,500 --> 01:26:09,834 how many people have completed our impeachment poll? 1857 01:26:09,917 --> 01:26:11,792 John Ferland: Yeah. I'll get that for us. 1858 01:26:11,875 --> 01:26:14,917 Massie: Has the impeachment been a fundraising boon 1859 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,750 for both sides? Absolutely. 1860 01:26:17,834 --> 01:26:20,959 But I have resisted the temptation 1861 01:26:21,041 --> 01:26:23,166 to raise any money off of impeachment. 1862 01:26:23,250 --> 01:26:26,000 I haven't even sent out a fundraising letter 1863 01:26:26,083 --> 01:26:27,709 since the impeachment started. 1864 01:26:27,792 --> 01:26:30,500 Ferland: So, around 3:40, you head down to the HVC. 1865 01:26:30,583 --> 01:26:32,166 What's the meeting in HVC? 1866 01:26:32,250 --> 01:26:34,667 -Um, it's all impeachment. -(scoffs) 1867 01:26:34,750 --> 01:26:36,834 -Okay. -Impeachment, impeachment. 1868 01:26:36,917 --> 01:26:39,333 Then 4:30, we're planning on vote times. 1869 01:26:39,417 --> 01:26:41,125 -That'll run till about 5:30. -There're, there're-- 1870 01:26:41,208 --> 01:26:44,083 -There are no committee hearings? -Not a single one. 1871 01:26:44,166 --> 01:26:47,166 -Mm, okay. Makes it easy. -Yeah. 1872 01:26:47,750 --> 01:26:51,000 -I'll just take some more phone calls, then. -Let's do it. 1873 01:26:51,083 --> 01:26:53,458 ♪ 1874 01:26:53,542 --> 01:26:54,959 Woman (on phone): Yes, hello? 1875 01:26:55,041 --> 01:26:57,875 Hi, this is Thomas Massie. Who am I talking to? 1876 01:26:57,959 --> 01:26:59,375 This is like Russian roulette. 1877 01:26:59,458 --> 01:27:02,500 I don't know if they are happy, or angry, 1878 01:27:02,583 --> 01:27:03,625 or undecided. 1879 01:27:03,709 --> 01:27:05,542 I'm just taking their call straight up. 1880 01:27:05,625 --> 01:27:07,792 Hi. This is Congressman Ken Buck's office. 1881 01:27:08,583 --> 01:27:10,291 (woman speaking on phone) 1882 01:27:10,375 --> 01:27:12,000 This is Congressman Ken Buck. 1883 01:27:12,083 --> 01:27:14,291 (woman speaking on phone) 1884 01:27:21,333 --> 01:27:24,583 Tell me why you believe I don't understand the rule of law. 1885 01:27:24,667 --> 01:27:27,333 (man speaking on phone) 1886 01:27:31,291 --> 01:27:32,792 Mm-hmm. 1887 01:27:36,458 --> 01:27:39,208 (woman speaking on phone) 1888 01:27:48,458 --> 01:27:50,166 Here's, here's what you have from me. 1889 01:27:50,250 --> 01:27:52,500 You have my commitment to keep an open mind. 1890 01:27:52,583 --> 01:27:56,000 I'm gonna watch as much of this hearing as I can today, 1891 01:27:56,083 --> 01:27:58,375 while I'm taking phone calls. 1892 01:27:58,458 --> 01:28:01,709 (man speaking on phone) 1893 01:28:06,125 --> 01:28:07,792 Buck: I'm sorry. 1894 01:28:11,709 --> 01:28:14,333 (woman speaking on phone) 1895 01:28:20,959 --> 01:28:23,625 Massie: Okay, well, I'm trying not to interrupt you, but I do, 1896 01:28:23,709 --> 01:28:26,625 -I do have other people I need to take calls from. -Woman (on phone): I know. 1897 01:28:26,709 --> 01:28:29,375 (man speaking on phone) 1898 01:28:38,375 --> 01:28:39,959 Well, I appreciate-- 1899 01:28:40,041 --> 01:28:41,792 I appreciate your feedback very much. 1900 01:28:41,875 --> 01:28:44,083 -You have a great day. -(man speaking on phone) 1901 01:28:44,667 --> 01:28:46,625 That's great. Take care. 1902 01:28:46,709 --> 01:28:48,166 Bye. 1903 01:28:49,041 --> 01:28:50,709 I've had enough. 1904 01:28:52,709 --> 01:28:55,625 I have to tell you, I think that this place has drained me 1905 01:28:55,709 --> 01:28:57,709 of a certain amount of life. 1906 01:28:59,583 --> 01:29:01,667 After having been here for five years, 1907 01:29:01,750 --> 01:29:03,208 I have no illusion 1908 01:29:03,291 --> 01:29:07,000 that what I say anybody cares about. 1909 01:29:07,083 --> 01:29:09,500 I have thought about leaving and I don't know whether 1910 01:29:09,583 --> 01:29:12,417 this is my last term or whether I'll run for one more term. 1911 01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:15,583 Uh, I do know that a lot of the folks at home 1912 01:29:15,667 --> 01:29:18,500 will not understand the long-term implications 1913 01:29:18,583 --> 01:29:20,625 of what's happening here in DC. 1914 01:29:20,709 --> 01:29:23,750 Throughout the White House right now, they're going to do an omni 1915 01:29:23,834 --> 01:29:26,458 that apparently is going to bust the budget caps. 1916 01:29:26,542 --> 01:29:27,834 I just heard. 1917 01:29:27,917 --> 01:29:29,875 Buck: This President has presented budgets 1918 01:29:29,959 --> 01:29:31,458 that are huge. 1919 01:29:31,542 --> 01:29:34,583 Typically, the Freedom Caucus would be leading the charge 1920 01:29:34,667 --> 01:29:37,834 to criticize an executive branch proposal 1921 01:29:37,917 --> 01:29:39,333 that costs that much money. 1922 01:29:39,417 --> 01:29:41,208 Now, that's just not the case. 1923 01:29:41,291 --> 01:29:42,875 And it's not the case because 1924 01:29:42,959 --> 01:29:45,542 when Freedom Caucus members look at their political base, 1925 01:29:45,625 --> 01:29:49,083 they realize that so much of their base are Trump lovers, 1926 01:29:49,166 --> 01:29:52,542 where nothing this President does can possibly be wrong, 1927 01:29:52,625 --> 01:29:54,792 that they can't criticize the President. 1928 01:30:09,500 --> 01:30:12,959 So, we did 40k for October. 40k. 1929 01:30:13,041 --> 01:30:14,500 -Net? -Yes, netted. 1930 01:30:14,583 --> 01:30:17,250 -Wow. -And then for Nove-- 1931 01:30:17,333 --> 01:30:19,834 So from November, right now, 1932 01:30:19,917 --> 01:30:22,125 we are already at 15. 1933 01:30:22,208 --> 01:30:23,667 -Netted. -Netted. 1934 01:30:23,750 --> 01:30:25,417 -Yeah, 15,000. -So, what do you think we'll 1935 01:30:25,500 --> 01:30:28,208 -net then, this month? -I think we're gonna get around 40. 1936 01:30:28,291 --> 01:30:29,583 -That's amazing. -Yeah. 1937 01:30:29,667 --> 01:30:32,291 So, when we met last on fundraising, 1938 01:30:32,375 --> 01:30:34,667 you said we were functionally bankrupt, 1939 01:30:34,750 --> 01:30:36,792 and now what has saved us has been impeachment? 1940 01:30:36,875 --> 01:30:38,750 Yeah, so all of it is mostly small dollar, 1941 01:30:38,834 --> 01:30:40,750 but everyone's doing well off of it. 1942 01:30:40,834 --> 01:30:41,959 It's not just our office. 1943 01:30:42,041 --> 01:30:44,083 Some lobbyists have randomly texted me 1944 01:30:44,166 --> 01:30:46,500 that they've donated or given money. 1945 01:30:46,583 --> 01:30:49,875 Has there been any revenue from the special interest community? 1946 01:30:49,959 --> 01:30:51,750 I would say about $3,000. Not much. 1947 01:30:51,834 --> 01:30:54,041 -(laughs) As is usual, then. -Yeah. 1948 01:30:54,125 --> 01:30:57,000 But, you know, I mean, if we were to make some announcement 1949 01:30:57,083 --> 01:30:59,875 that, like, we, we have converted to this new faith 1950 01:30:59,959 --> 01:31:04,125 that, that is absent any lobbyist or PAC money-- 1951 01:31:04,208 --> 01:31:06,250 I mean, once you cross the Rubicon, you can't go back. 1952 01:31:06,333 --> 01:31:07,834 Well, that's, that's my only concern with it. 1953 01:31:07,917 --> 01:31:09,709 What I don't want you to do is shoot yourself in the foot 1954 01:31:09,792 --> 01:31:11,291 for a later time in 20 years from now 1955 01:31:11,375 --> 01:31:13,125 when you want to run for something that's bigger, you know? 1956 01:31:13,208 --> 01:31:15,959 I assure you, I will not be running for anything in 20 years. 1957 01:31:16,041 --> 01:31:17,875 Never say never. 1958 01:31:17,959 --> 01:31:19,917 Sarbanes: Before January, 1959 01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,250 there were seven members of Congress 1960 01:31:22,333 --> 01:31:24,291 who were corporate PAC free. 1961 01:31:24,375 --> 01:31:27,291 And today it's 60. Six-zero. 1962 01:31:27,375 --> 01:31:30,041 So, in one election, 1963 01:31:30,125 --> 01:31:32,959 we've brought in a whole new cohort 1964 01:31:33,041 --> 01:31:34,792 of members that are saying, 1965 01:31:34,875 --> 01:31:37,041 "We want to do something different here." 1966 01:31:37,125 --> 01:31:39,333 So we have a proposal in H.R. 1 1967 01:31:39,417 --> 01:31:41,709 to create a small donor matching system. 1968 01:31:41,792 --> 01:31:46,041 This is something Larry Lessig has worked on with me. 1969 01:31:46,709 --> 01:31:49,750 If voters give $50, or $25, 1970 01:31:49,834 --> 01:31:53,000 a six-to-one match comes in behind that from the government 1971 01:31:53,083 --> 01:31:54,875 on those small donations. 1972 01:31:54,959 --> 01:31:57,291 When they go to candidates who say, "You know what? 1973 01:31:57,375 --> 01:31:59,000 "I'm not gonna take the big money. 1974 01:31:59,083 --> 01:32:00,750 "I'm not gonna take the PAC money, 1975 01:32:00,834 --> 01:32:03,000 "and I'm gonna step into a system 1976 01:32:03,083 --> 01:32:06,166 "where it's the average citizen 1977 01:32:06,250 --> 01:32:08,834 who's the most important person to me." 1978 01:32:08,917 --> 01:32:11,000 I'm not a career politician. 1979 01:32:11,083 --> 01:32:14,083 Party leaders don't control me, and they never will. 1980 01:32:14,166 --> 01:32:17,333 Corporations do not run my campaign. 1981 01:32:17,417 --> 01:32:19,834 Gaetz: Katie Hill was a new member of Congress. 1982 01:32:19,917 --> 01:32:23,750 A freshman. She ran a very different kind of upstart campaign 1983 01:32:23,834 --> 01:32:26,000 without corporate PAC money, 1984 01:32:26,083 --> 01:32:28,750 and she was on the Armed Services Committee with me. 1985 01:32:28,834 --> 01:32:32,667 And then suddenly Katie Hill was victimized 1986 01:32:32,750 --> 01:32:36,250 by a husband who had pictures of her, 1987 01:32:36,333 --> 01:32:38,208 uh, where she wasn't wearing any clothes, 1988 01:32:38,291 --> 01:32:39,542 or doing other weird stuff, 1989 01:32:39,625 --> 01:32:40,875 and he leaked them. 1990 01:32:40,959 --> 01:32:43,625 And she had to resign from Congress as a result. 1991 01:32:43,709 --> 01:32:46,458 Newscaster: You said about this situation, "This is absurd." 1992 01:32:46,542 --> 01:32:48,000 "Who among us would look perfect 1993 01:32:48,083 --> 01:32:51,375 if every ex leaked every photo and text?" 1994 01:32:51,458 --> 01:32:54,125 I don't think these issues should be partisan in nature. 1995 01:32:54,208 --> 01:32:56,000 I think that if someone is trying to destroy 1996 01:32:56,083 --> 01:32:57,709 one of your coworkers, 1997 01:32:57,792 --> 01:32:59,959 you should sympathize with the fact that the only reason 1998 01:33:00,041 --> 01:33:02,041 that this information is in the public square 1999 01:33:02,125 --> 01:33:05,375 is because someone is committing the crime of revenge porn. 2000 01:33:05,458 --> 01:33:08,625 So I sent out a tweet defending President Trump 2001 01:33:08,709 --> 01:33:11,291 and Katie Hill in the same tweet. 2002 01:33:11,375 --> 01:33:13,291 So, Katie just saw the tweet and texted me, 2003 01:33:13,375 --> 01:33:14,709 "Thanks for the shout out, 2004 01:33:14,792 --> 01:33:18,041 though I defs disagree with you on Trump." 2005 01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:20,041 To which I replied, "It's okay. 2006 01:33:20,125 --> 01:33:22,333 He disagrees with me about you, too." 2007 01:33:22,417 --> 01:33:26,333 And she wrote back, "LOL. You're a true bridge builder." 2008 01:33:27,542 --> 01:33:30,583 Do you think that the way money is raised here, 2009 01:33:30,667 --> 01:33:32,500 the way the lobbyists and PACs operate 2010 01:33:32,583 --> 01:33:34,917 hurts us or helps us? Like, what's the play 2011 01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:38,166 if you're a young person and you're trying to make it in DC, 2012 01:33:38,250 --> 01:33:40,166 'cause I'm not sure I've figured it out from 2013 01:33:40,250 --> 01:33:41,875 the fundraising side of things. 2014 01:33:41,959 --> 01:33:45,083 Well, a lot of my fundraising was literally in a backlash to Trump. 2015 01:33:45,166 --> 01:33:46,917 So we're coming from very different places-- 2016 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,542 Yeah, but you weren't raising money from lobbyists. 2017 01:33:48,625 --> 01:33:50,583 No, that's my point is that, like, I came-- 2018 01:33:50,667 --> 01:33:52,458 I, I was able to raise money from individuals. 2019 01:33:52,542 --> 01:33:54,375 I didn't take a dime of corporate money. 2020 01:33:54,458 --> 01:33:56,709 There are more Democrats that are not taking corporate PAC money 2021 01:33:56,792 --> 01:33:58,709 -than have ever happened. -Right. How many are there now? 2022 01:33:58,792 --> 01:34:00,792 I think there, I-- The last I heard, there were, like, 2023 01:34:00,875 --> 01:34:03,375 -over 65 or something like that. -I think the only-- 2024 01:34:03,458 --> 01:34:05,583 I think there are not many Republicans who don't do it. 2025 01:34:05,667 --> 01:34:07,625 Right. Are you-- Do you not? 2026 01:34:07,709 --> 01:34:09,458 -Kinda? -I'm thinking about it. 2027 01:34:09,542 --> 01:34:11,959 I think you'd be the first, on the Republican side. I'm pretty sure. 2028 01:34:12,041 --> 01:34:14,959 The first thing that we have to do to change things 2029 01:34:15,041 --> 01:34:16,792 is to get money out of politics. 2030 01:34:16,875 --> 01:34:19,125 And so that's why, you know, 2031 01:34:19,208 --> 01:34:21,792 I feel strongly about other parts of H.R. 1, as well, 2032 01:34:21,875 --> 01:34:23,709 including the way that districts are drawn. 2033 01:34:23,792 --> 01:34:26,834 -I think gerrymandering needs to be gone. -I agree. 2034 01:34:26,917 --> 01:34:28,125 -Do you? -Yes. 2035 01:34:28,208 --> 01:34:30,333 Well, then, why are you not for H.R. 1? 2036 01:34:30,417 --> 01:34:33,625 I don't like taking money from the taxpayers 2037 01:34:33,709 --> 01:34:35,333 to fund political campaigns, 2038 01:34:35,417 --> 01:34:38,458 because I think that that's like welfare for politicians. 2039 01:34:38,542 --> 01:34:40,000 The reason that I'm for this, 2040 01:34:40,083 --> 01:34:41,959 and again, I think even a few years ago 2041 01:34:42,041 --> 01:34:43,166 I would have been differently-- 2042 01:34:43,250 --> 01:34:45,083 By the way, I'm a fucking good fundraiser. 2043 01:34:45,166 --> 01:34:47,000 -Yeah. -So, like, I don't need 2044 01:34:47,083 --> 01:34:49,000 public financing. It's not for me. 2045 01:34:49,083 --> 01:34:51,542 It's for people who couldn't have access to that. 2046 01:34:51,625 --> 01:34:54,500 And you're talking about people from, like, North Dakota. 2047 01:34:54,583 --> 01:34:57,667 If you're not willing to take oil money from North Dakota, 2048 01:34:57,750 --> 01:34:59,667 like, how are you gonna have a chance? 2049 01:34:59,750 --> 01:35:01,208 You know, I came from a political family. 2050 01:35:01,291 --> 01:35:03,250 I had advantages other people didn't have. 2051 01:35:03,333 --> 01:35:05,125 But, but I do think that, like, 2052 01:35:05,208 --> 01:35:07,750 if you just say everybody gets the same amount of cash, 2053 01:35:07,834 --> 01:35:10,834 -it does, like, shave off-- -But it's not about everybody gets the same amount of cash. 2054 01:35:10,917 --> 01:35:12,959 Because, like, you have to raise a certain amount on your own, 2055 01:35:13,041 --> 01:35:15,875 -and then it's matched, and it's like, one to five. -That's a fair clarification. 2056 01:35:15,959 --> 01:35:19,417 So, you know, I-- So I think you have to show a certain amount of grit. 2057 01:35:19,500 --> 01:35:21,500 And I was able to jump in at the right moment 2058 01:35:21,583 --> 01:35:23,875 because women particularly, 2059 01:35:23,959 --> 01:35:27,250 were mobilized around the fact that fucking Trump had become President. 2060 01:35:27,333 --> 01:35:31,166 And I, and I was the, I was the, like, antidote. 2061 01:35:31,250 --> 01:35:33,542 I was the thing that they saw that, like, could help 2062 01:35:33,625 --> 01:35:36,709 protect our country from the guy you're pals with. 2063 01:35:36,792 --> 01:35:38,208 -But, um-- -He's so great. 2064 01:35:38,291 --> 01:35:39,667 I'll never love another President again. 2065 01:35:39,750 --> 01:35:41,542 -I love him so much. -I remember you telling me that 2066 01:35:41,625 --> 01:35:43,500 like one of the first times I talked to you as we were getting on the elevator, 2067 01:35:43,583 --> 01:35:45,083 -and I'm like, is this real? -I was trying to trigger you. 2068 01:35:45,166 --> 01:35:47,041 Like, do you really believe this? 2069 01:35:47,125 --> 01:35:49,917 -I do. -But, um... whatever. (laughs) 2070 01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,375 You know, I, I, I, I defend flawed people. 2071 01:35:52,458 --> 01:35:54,208 -It's sort of my thing around here. -I mean, that's fine. 2072 01:35:54,291 --> 01:35:55,667 I defend flawed people, too. 2073 01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:58,667 I just feel like I-- I'd have to defend our Constitution. 2074 01:35:58,750 --> 01:36:00,500 But, um... 2075 01:36:11,041 --> 01:36:13,041 Can I get a picture for the camera? 2076 01:36:13,125 --> 01:36:14,583 Oh, sure. Happy to. 2077 01:36:14,667 --> 01:36:16,250 I actually met you at Janine's party 2078 01:36:16,333 --> 01:36:18,291 -two weeks ago. -Yeah, yeah! That was a great party. 2079 01:36:18,375 --> 01:36:20,458 All right. Here, I got the selfie arm. 2080 01:36:20,542 --> 01:36:23,333 -Do we get some light? -We'll see, see where we can get a little Trump light 2081 01:36:23,417 --> 01:36:25,583 -in our background. -Sounds good to me. 2082 01:36:25,667 --> 01:36:27,375 Gaetz: All right, there you go. Thank you. 2083 01:36:27,458 --> 01:36:28,583 -Good seeing you again. -Keep up the great work. 2084 01:36:28,667 --> 01:36:30,417 (laughs) Will do. We need more fighters. 2085 01:36:30,500 --> 01:36:32,291 -Nice seeing you. -Nice seeing you. 2086 01:36:32,375 --> 01:36:35,792 ("Deck the Halls" playing) 2087 01:36:36,583 --> 01:36:38,250 Hey. Good to see you, my man. 2088 01:36:38,333 --> 01:36:40,041 Thanks for welcoming us again. 2089 01:36:40,125 --> 01:36:42,083 -All right, man. -(laughing) 2090 01:36:42,166 --> 01:36:44,542 -You're awesome. -(laughing) 2091 01:36:45,500 --> 01:36:47,667 ♪ Don we now our gay apparel ♪ 2092 01:36:47,750 --> 01:36:49,959 ♪ Fa la la, la la la, la la ♪ 2093 01:36:50,041 --> 01:36:52,333 Thank you for what you're doing every day. You fight our fight. 2094 01:36:52,417 --> 01:36:55,208 And thanks for giving it to 'em in those hearings. 2095 01:36:56,917 --> 01:36:59,333 ♪ Fa la la la la, la la, la la ♪ 2096 01:36:59,417 --> 01:37:02,625 This is only the fourth time that the House judiciary 2097 01:37:02,709 --> 01:37:04,792 has begun considering articles of impeachment. 2098 01:37:04,875 --> 01:37:07,041 -There's my man. Cheers to that. -(glasses clink) 2099 01:37:07,125 --> 01:37:10,041 Chris Cuomo. He's one of the great adversaries I have. 2100 01:37:10,125 --> 01:37:12,625 ♪ Fa la la la la, la la, la la ♪ 2101 01:37:12,709 --> 01:37:14,792 ♪ See the blazing yule before us ♪ 2102 01:37:14,875 --> 01:37:17,083 ♪ Fa la la la la, la la, la la ♪ 2103 01:37:17,166 --> 01:37:18,417 I watch you every night on Fox. 2104 01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:20,083 I thought you were the bomb. 2105 01:37:20,166 --> 01:37:21,667 -Oh, thanks for saying so. -Literally the bomb. 2106 01:37:21,750 --> 01:37:23,834 ♪ Follow me in merry measure ♪ 2107 01:37:23,917 --> 01:37:26,291 ♪ Fa la la, la la la, la la la ♪ 2108 01:37:26,375 --> 01:37:28,417 ♪ While I tell of yuletide treasure ♪ 2109 01:37:28,500 --> 01:37:30,917 ♪ Fa la la la la, la la, la la ♪ 2110 01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:35,917 ♪ Fa la la la la, la la, la la ♪ 2111 01:37:37,250 --> 01:37:39,709 Nadler: Today, we begin consideration 2112 01:37:39,792 --> 01:37:44,000 of two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump. 2113 01:37:44,375 --> 01:37:46,667 The first article charges that the President 2114 01:37:46,750 --> 01:37:48,875 used the powers of his public office 2115 01:37:48,959 --> 01:37:51,166 to demand that a foreign government 2116 01:37:51,250 --> 01:37:53,375 attack his political rivals. 2117 01:37:53,458 --> 01:37:56,000 The second article charges that the President 2118 01:37:56,083 --> 01:38:00,000 obstructed the Congressional investigation into his conduct. 2119 01:38:00,083 --> 01:38:02,959 Buck: How will history judge this impeachment? 2120 01:38:03,041 --> 01:38:04,709 I believe the American people 2121 01:38:04,792 --> 01:38:07,041 will remember this impeachment effort unkindly, 2122 01:38:07,125 --> 01:38:09,959 instead remembering Democrats have been resisting, 2123 01:38:10,041 --> 01:38:12,709 and looking for an excuse to impeach this President 2124 01:38:12,792 --> 01:38:14,834 since the day he was elected. 2125 01:38:14,917 --> 01:38:17,625 I hope you've had your fun. 2126 01:38:17,709 --> 01:38:20,208 Say goodbye to your majority status, 2127 01:38:20,291 --> 01:38:24,500 and please join us in January of 2021 2128 01:38:24,583 --> 01:38:28,083 when President Trump is inaugurated again. 2129 01:38:28,792 --> 01:38:29,959 I yield back. 2130 01:38:30,041 --> 01:38:31,834 Man: Gentleman yields back. Mr. Gaetz. 2131 01:38:31,917 --> 01:38:35,375 House Democrats aren't clarifying that no one's above the law. 2132 01:38:35,458 --> 01:38:37,083 They're just clarifying that none of them 2133 01:38:37,166 --> 01:38:39,375 are above partisanship, and politics. 2134 01:38:39,458 --> 01:38:41,875 The only relevant quid pro quo 2135 01:38:41,959 --> 01:38:43,583 is the American people's decision 2136 01:38:43,667 --> 01:38:45,750 to send President Trump to the White House, 2137 01:38:45,834 --> 01:38:49,041 in exchange for Trump's commitment to support our workers, 2138 01:38:49,125 --> 01:38:51,667 restore our economy, defend our troops, 2139 01:38:51,750 --> 01:38:53,250 and drain the swamp. 2140 01:38:53,333 --> 01:38:54,834 (crowd cheering) 2141 01:38:56,166 --> 01:39:00,083 We are going to Washington, DC, 2142 01:39:00,166 --> 01:39:03,417 and we are going to do what? 2143 01:39:03,500 --> 01:39:06,542 Drain. The. Swamp. 2144 01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:11,583 I don't know those gentlemen. 2145 01:39:11,667 --> 01:39:13,834 Newscaster: Fruman and Parnas are charged with making 2146 01:39:13,917 --> 01:39:16,041 $325,000 2147 01:39:16,125 --> 01:39:19,250 in illegal straw donations to a Trump super PAC. 2148 01:39:19,333 --> 01:39:21,041 Newscaster 2: After making these political contributions, 2149 01:39:21,125 --> 01:39:22,208 they were setting up meetings 2150 01:39:22,291 --> 01:39:23,667 in order to push for the removal 2151 01:39:23,750 --> 01:39:25,417 of Ambassador Yovanovitch. 2152 01:39:25,500 --> 01:39:27,291 Marie Yovanovitch: Ukrainians who prefer to play by the old, 2153 01:39:27,375 --> 01:39:30,250 corrupt rules, sought to remove me. 2154 01:39:34,083 --> 01:39:37,834 Newscaster: Her removal allowed someone else to step in-- 2155 01:39:37,917 --> 01:39:40,583 a Trump donor and EU ambassador 2156 01:39:40,667 --> 01:39:42,250 who urged the Ukrainians 2157 01:39:42,333 --> 01:39:44,667 to look into the President's campaign rival. 2158 01:39:44,750 --> 01:39:48,375 Was there a quid pro quo? The answer is yes. 2159 01:39:48,458 --> 01:39:51,417 Newscaster: The hotel mogul donated a million dollars 2160 01:39:51,500 --> 01:39:53,792 to President Trump's inaugural committee, 2161 01:39:53,875 --> 01:39:57,500 which helped him secure his diplomatic post. 2162 01:39:57,583 --> 01:40:00,667 Lessig: It's astonishing to think that we went into the 2016 election 2163 01:40:00,750 --> 01:40:03,959 with Donald Trump appearing to be the anti-corruption crusader, 2164 01:40:04,041 --> 01:40:06,041 because he had called out super PACs, 2165 01:40:06,125 --> 01:40:10,250 he had said politicians were all owned by the special interests. 2166 01:40:10,333 --> 01:40:13,041 But what's so tragic about Donald Trump is 2167 01:40:13,125 --> 01:40:16,333 there was an opportunity for him to change the status quo. 2168 01:40:16,417 --> 01:40:18,834 But he was never interested in doing it. 2169 01:40:18,917 --> 01:40:20,542 Crowd (chanting): Drain the swamp! 2170 01:40:20,625 --> 01:40:23,750 Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! 2171 01:40:24,667 --> 01:40:27,000 You know, when I first heard that term, I hated it. 2172 01:40:27,083 --> 01:40:29,000 I said, "Oh, that's so hokey." 2173 01:40:29,083 --> 01:40:30,250 I said, "Oh, that's so hokey." 2174 01:40:30,333 --> 01:40:32,417 But I said, "Look, let's give it a shot." 2175 01:40:32,500 --> 01:40:33,834 I tried to-- The place went crazy. 2176 01:40:33,917 --> 01:40:35,959 This place went crazy. I said, "Whoa. 2177 01:40:36,041 --> 01:40:37,458 What's this?" Then I said it again. 2178 01:40:37,542 --> 01:40:39,083 The place went crazy. 2179 01:40:39,166 --> 01:40:42,792 Then I started saying it like I meant it, right? 2180 01:40:42,875 --> 01:40:44,792 Gaetz: We will face this illegitimate impeachment 2181 01:40:44,875 --> 01:40:46,667 with our heads high, our facts straight, 2182 01:40:46,750 --> 01:40:49,500 and our commitment to our transformational President 2183 01:40:49,583 --> 01:40:50,875 deeply intensified. 2184 01:40:50,959 --> 01:40:54,250 We'll see you on the field in 2020. 2185 01:40:54,333 --> 01:40:56,125 Lessig: It's not clear it's possible 2186 01:40:56,208 --> 01:41:00,500 to get us beyond that blinder of hyper-partisanship today. 2187 01:41:00,583 --> 01:41:03,166 There are real differences we have to work out. 2188 01:41:04,667 --> 01:41:07,875 But Donald Trump is a short-term problem. 2189 01:41:07,959 --> 01:41:11,792 Whether he gets reelected or not, he will be gone. 2190 01:41:11,875 --> 01:41:15,208 And I am so absolutely convinced 2191 01:41:15,291 --> 01:41:19,625 that we have broken the core institution of our democracy. 2192 01:41:19,709 --> 01:41:21,458 And at a certain point, 2193 01:41:21,542 --> 01:41:24,959 winning elections in a broken system doesn't get you anything. 2194 01:41:25,041 --> 01:41:28,250 It might get you a victory on election night. 2195 01:41:28,333 --> 01:41:31,417 But it doesn't give you the capacity to govern. 2196 01:41:31,500 --> 01:41:34,750 And if we can't rise above the partisan difference, 2197 01:41:34,834 --> 01:41:37,333 country over party, for the single purpose 2198 01:41:37,417 --> 01:41:40,208 of fixing the institution of Congress, 2199 01:41:40,291 --> 01:41:43,542 then our government will just continue to fail. 2200 01:41:46,667 --> 01:41:49,834 Massie: We're looking at 3,488 pages 2201 01:41:49,917 --> 01:41:52,917 of the National Defense Authorization Act 2202 01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:55,500 for the fiscal year 2020. 2203 01:41:55,583 --> 01:41:57,542 They introduced it at 10 p.m. 2204 01:41:57,625 --> 01:41:59,667 the night before we had to vote on it. 2205 01:41:59,750 --> 01:42:03,875 The leadership assures you that you do not need to read this bill. 2206 01:42:03,959 --> 01:42:06,792 Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy 2207 01:42:06,875 --> 01:42:08,750 each have their own summary of this bill 2208 01:42:08,834 --> 01:42:10,875 which is only two pages long. 2209 01:42:10,959 --> 01:42:12,458 One page front and back. 2210 01:42:12,542 --> 01:42:13,750 And it says, "Oh, 2211 01:42:13,834 --> 01:42:16,667 there's a pay raise in here for the military." 2212 01:42:17,667 --> 01:42:19,875 The efforts that I've undertaken 2213 01:42:19,959 --> 01:42:21,792 with Barbara Lee on the other side of the aisle 2214 01:42:21,875 --> 01:42:24,250 to curb the wars that we are in, 2215 01:42:24,333 --> 01:42:26,792 none of that made it into this NDAA. 2216 01:42:26,875 --> 01:42:29,458 But the NDAA has never failed. 2217 01:42:29,542 --> 01:42:32,208 It's one of those trains that when it leaves the station, 2218 01:42:32,291 --> 01:42:34,375 it's going to its destination. 2219 01:42:34,458 --> 01:42:37,333 And so, the vast majority of the money in this bill 2220 01:42:37,417 --> 01:42:41,583 goes to the military industrial complex, not the soldiers, 2221 01:42:41,667 --> 01:42:43,917 but because they've got a pay raise for soldiers 2222 01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,917 in this 3,488-page bill, 2223 01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:49,208 a lot of people don't need to read any further. 2224 01:42:49,291 --> 01:42:51,917 Like, "Man, I can't vote against that." 2225 01:42:56,750 --> 01:42:58,667 Gaetz: We've just stepped off the floor 2226 01:42:58,750 --> 01:43:01,125 where the National Defense Authorization Act passed, 2227 01:43:01,208 --> 01:43:03,375 and pretty bittersweet for me, you know. 2228 01:43:03,458 --> 01:43:06,000 I'm glad to see our troops get a raise, I'm glad to see a lot of 2229 01:43:06,083 --> 01:43:08,291 positive things for our military families in that bill, 2230 01:43:08,375 --> 01:43:12,083 but it is deeply saddening that Khanna-Gaetz was left out, 2231 01:43:12,166 --> 01:43:14,458 despite having the support of the people, 2232 01:43:14,542 --> 01:43:16,000 the support of the House of Representatives, 2233 01:43:16,083 --> 01:43:18,000 and more votes for it than against it in the Senate. 2234 01:43:18,083 --> 01:43:20,166 The bipartisan amendment 2235 01:43:20,250 --> 01:43:22,041 to stop the war in Iran 2236 01:43:22,125 --> 01:43:24,000 stripped by the White House. 2237 01:43:24,083 --> 01:43:25,333 At some time, 2238 01:43:25,417 --> 01:43:27,834 we can't just rhetorically give standing ovations 2239 01:43:27,917 --> 01:43:30,834 when the President says we're gonna end endless wars, 2240 01:43:30,917 --> 01:43:33,583 and continue to vote to fund them. 2241 01:43:33,667 --> 01:43:37,458 I voted no. The defense budget was too high in my view, 2242 01:43:37,542 --> 01:43:40,875 and the fact that they had stripped the Iran amendment, 2243 01:43:40,959 --> 01:43:43,417 and they had stripped the Yemen amendment, 2244 01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:44,875 uh, I couldn't vote for it. 2245 01:43:44,959 --> 01:43:47,125 Now, I understand it was a tough vote for people, 2246 01:43:47,208 --> 01:43:49,500 because they did have increase for the troops, 2247 01:43:49,583 --> 01:43:51,583 and they did have, uh, increase 2248 01:43:51,667 --> 01:43:54,333 in terms of parental leave for federal employees. 2249 01:43:54,417 --> 01:43:58,583 But the fact is, we shouldn't be having these kind of votes. 2250 01:43:58,667 --> 01:44:00,750 We should have clean votes on these issues, 2251 01:44:00,834 --> 01:44:02,041 as opposed to what they do, 2252 01:44:02,125 --> 01:44:04,583 which is force you to cast a tough vote 2253 01:44:04,667 --> 01:44:08,083 because they lump in pay increases for the troops 2254 01:44:08,166 --> 01:44:11,500 with, uh, not stopping the war in Iran. 2255 01:44:11,583 --> 01:44:13,709 Gaetz: I thought there was more good than bad in the bill, 2256 01:44:13,792 --> 01:44:16,417 and so I voted for it, but I also can understand why 2257 01:44:16,500 --> 01:44:18,792 someone would, uh, would take a different position, 2258 01:44:18,875 --> 01:44:20,917 because there's just so much more that, 2259 01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:22,583 that should have occurred here 2260 01:44:22,667 --> 01:44:26,750 to reflect the overwhelming will of the people in this country. 2261 01:44:26,834 --> 01:44:30,625 You know, anytime you see the votes line up with the people, 2262 01:44:30,709 --> 01:44:32,917 and yet the outcome doesn't happen, 2263 01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,792 it is a reflection of a broken system. 2264 01:44:38,125 --> 01:44:40,291 -Man 1: Are you Congressman Gaetz? -Yeah. 2265 01:44:40,375 --> 01:44:43,959 You have got be kidding me with this defense of Trump. 2266 01:44:44,208 --> 01:44:46,625 -The guy used taxpayer money-- -I'm not kidding at all, man. 2267 01:44:46,709 --> 01:44:49,125 -Man 2: Don't listen to him. -Man 1: No, no, no, no, Wait a second. 2268 01:44:49,208 --> 01:44:52,041 -I'm an attorney-- -Man 3: We're with you, Congressman Gaetz. 2269 01:44:52,125 --> 01:44:54,208 Don't listen to him. The American people are with you. 2270 01:44:54,291 --> 01:44:55,709 Man 2: We need more people like you in Congress. 2271 01:44:55,792 --> 01:44:57,458 Man 3: The American people are with you, sir. 2272 01:44:57,542 --> 01:45:01,041 Man 1: You don't think that this man used taxpayer money 2273 01:45:01,125 --> 01:45:05,583 to try to front the Ukrainian government? 2274 01:45:05,667 --> 01:45:08,959 -To try to engage the Biden administration? -Man 3: What about Joe Biden? 2275 01:45:09,041 --> 01:45:10,375 What about Joe Biden? 2276 01:45:10,458 --> 01:45:12,542 Man 1: Answer the question! 2277 01:45:13,250 --> 01:45:16,750 ♪ 2278 01:45:16,834 --> 01:45:19,166 Khanna: I think what frustrates people today is, 2279 01:45:19,250 --> 01:45:22,667 it seems that we're unable to find a sense of, 2280 01:45:22,750 --> 01:45:25,041 what can we do together? 2281 01:45:25,375 --> 01:45:26,834 But at our best, 2282 01:45:26,917 --> 01:45:29,625 our country has risen to the challenge 2283 01:45:29,709 --> 01:45:32,417 of finding common purpose, or the common good. 2284 01:45:33,542 --> 01:45:36,208 We've done it when we have defeated tyranny 2285 01:45:36,291 --> 01:45:37,959 in World War II, 2286 01:45:38,041 --> 01:45:41,166 when we've helped establish the international order. 2287 01:45:41,250 --> 01:45:44,792 We've done it in building the interstate highways, 2288 01:45:44,875 --> 01:45:47,125 winning the Cold War, 2289 01:45:47,208 --> 01:45:48,834 inventing the internet, 2290 01:45:48,917 --> 01:45:51,250 and sending a man to the moon. 2291 01:45:52,083 --> 01:45:54,333 Our country has done extraordinary things, 2292 01:45:54,417 --> 01:45:58,333 and most of those extraordinary achievements have been bipartisan. 2293 01:45:58,417 --> 01:46:01,834 So the idea that we can't rise to the occasion again 2294 01:46:01,917 --> 01:46:04,208 defies American history. 2295 01:46:06,125 --> 01:46:08,250 Lessig: I don't know how to say this 2296 01:46:08,333 --> 01:46:10,083 as strongly as I feel it. 2297 01:46:11,125 --> 01:46:15,333 Because, you know, I'm this sappy patriot, 2298 01:46:15,417 --> 01:46:18,333 who deeply loves the traditions of our country. 2299 01:46:18,417 --> 01:46:20,291 Not that there aren't things to criticize, 2300 01:46:20,375 --> 01:46:22,542 and I spend most of my time finding how to criticize them, 2301 01:46:22,625 --> 01:46:24,750 but the dream, the ideals, 2302 01:46:24,834 --> 01:46:26,542 of this republic, 2303 01:46:26,625 --> 01:46:28,875 are things we all should be proud of. 2304 01:46:28,959 --> 01:46:32,792 And we have to find a way to convince people to fix it, 2305 01:46:32,875 --> 01:46:36,041 because it's not as if there aren't hard problems 2306 01:46:36,125 --> 01:46:39,000 in the future we need to solve. 2307 01:46:39,083 --> 01:46:42,166 Everybody's so obsessed in deciding what we should do, 2308 01:46:42,250 --> 01:46:44,041 as if we can do something. 2309 01:46:44,125 --> 01:46:47,291 Everybody's arguing about, you know, should we have single-payer health care, 2310 01:46:47,375 --> 01:46:48,875 or climate change legislation, 2311 01:46:48,959 --> 01:46:52,959 as if it's possible to get those things done. 2312 01:46:53,041 --> 01:46:56,250 None of these issues can be addressed sensibly 2313 01:46:56,333 --> 01:46:59,500 until we address the deep corruption inside of our government. 2314 01:47:00,959 --> 01:47:02,625 Sarbanes: There are people in the country, 2315 01:47:02,709 --> 01:47:05,125 and I can understand it, I relate to it, 2316 01:47:05,208 --> 01:47:07,709 who are so angry at Washington 2317 01:47:07,792 --> 01:47:11,458 that just the simple act of handing someone a baseball bat 2318 01:47:11,542 --> 01:47:13,417 and saying go up there and poof... 2319 01:47:13,500 --> 01:47:15,333 shake things up. 2320 01:47:15,417 --> 01:47:17,458 gives them a certain amount of satisfaction. 2321 01:47:17,542 --> 01:47:19,583 I, I understand that. 2322 01:47:19,667 --> 01:47:23,083 And what we're trying to do with our reforms is say 2323 01:47:23,166 --> 01:47:24,709 these can be as consequential 2324 01:47:24,792 --> 01:47:26,417 as any baseball bat could ever be. 2325 01:47:26,500 --> 01:47:31,083 Because instead of tearing your democracy down 2326 01:47:31,166 --> 01:47:33,250 to satisfy your anger, 2327 01:47:33,333 --> 01:47:34,750 we're gonna build it up, 2328 01:47:34,834 --> 01:47:38,208 and we're gonna put you right back in the middle of it. 2329 01:47:38,291 --> 01:47:40,834 Buck: There is no incentive for leadership 2330 01:47:40,917 --> 01:47:44,917 to reduce its own power by reforming Congress. 2331 01:47:45,041 --> 01:47:49,834 But Congress will react when the people stand up and demand action. 2332 01:47:51,250 --> 01:47:55,125 Massie: The force than runs everything is the electorate. 2333 01:47:55,208 --> 01:47:57,917 Everybody up here can lose an election. 2334 01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:00,417 It doesn't matter how powerful you are. 2335 01:48:00,500 --> 01:48:03,917 So, the final arbiters of who holds power here 2336 01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:07,542 are still the voters back home. 2337 01:48:07,625 --> 01:48:10,250 Gaetz: So many of the challenges that are impacting our country 2338 01:48:10,333 --> 01:48:14,166 aren't going to impact Republicans and Democrats differently. 2339 01:48:14,250 --> 01:48:16,792 They're going to impact us all the same. 2340 01:48:16,875 --> 01:48:19,166 And so I think the thing we can do 2341 01:48:19,250 --> 01:48:21,291 to drain the swamp the most 2342 01:48:21,375 --> 01:48:24,125 would be to just achieve some common understanding 2343 01:48:24,208 --> 01:48:27,000 that on a lot of this stuff, we are in the same rowboat. 2344 01:48:27,083 --> 01:48:29,166 And if we're rowing different directions the whole time, 2345 01:48:29,250 --> 01:48:31,500 we're just gonna spin on the top of the water. 2346 01:48:31,583 --> 01:48:35,458 ♪ 2347 01:48:35,542 --> 01:48:37,166 Reporter: In 230 years, 2348 01:48:37,250 --> 01:48:40,000 since the US House of Representatives began its work, 2349 01:48:40,083 --> 01:48:43,750 only twice has it launched the debate we will witness today. 2350 01:48:43,834 --> 01:48:45,667 Democrats will bring to the full House 2351 01:48:45,750 --> 01:48:48,375 two articles of impeachment against President Trump. 2352 01:48:48,917 --> 01:48:53,208 ("Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers playing) 2353 01:48:55,667 --> 01:48:58,500 ♪ Some people say that he's guilty ♪ 2354 01:48:58,583 --> 01:49:00,667 ♪ That he's guilty ♪ 2355 01:49:00,750 --> 01:49:03,500 ♪ Some people say I don't know ♪ 2356 01:49:03,583 --> 01:49:05,250 ♪ I don't know ♪ 2357 01:49:05,333 --> 01:49:08,375 ♪ Some people say give him a chance ♪ 2358 01:49:08,458 --> 01:49:10,041 ♪ Give him a chance ♪ 2359 01:49:10,125 --> 01:49:13,375 ♪ Aw, some people say wait till they convict him ♪ 2360 01:49:13,458 --> 01:49:14,875 ♪ Till they convict him ♪ 2361 01:49:14,959 --> 01:49:16,875 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2362 01:49:16,959 --> 01:49:19,375 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2363 01:49:19,458 --> 01:49:21,542 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2364 01:49:21,625 --> 01:49:24,125 Woman 1: Matt Gaetz, country over party. 2365 01:49:24,208 --> 01:49:26,041 Come on, where's your soul? 2366 01:49:26,125 --> 01:49:27,625 Right here. 2367 01:49:27,709 --> 01:49:31,083 Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz... 2368 01:49:31,166 --> 01:49:34,959 Save our country. You could be a hero, dude. 2369 01:49:35,041 --> 01:49:38,000 -You could be a hero. -Woman 2: That's the funny thing. He is a hero. 2370 01:49:38,083 --> 01:49:40,250 You could stand up for our country. 2371 01:49:40,333 --> 01:49:43,583 -The Constitution, dude. -Woman 3: Go back to Russia! 2372 01:49:43,667 --> 01:49:47,125 Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. You people are something. 2373 01:49:47,208 --> 01:49:49,875 Come on, Matt. You can do it! I believe in you. 2374 01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,834 Go, Matt, go! Truth! Truth! 2375 01:49:53,375 --> 01:49:54,750 Truth, Matt! 2376 01:49:54,834 --> 01:49:57,291 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2377 01:49:57,375 --> 01:49:59,834 ♪ Aw nah, we can't do that, man ♪ 2378 01:49:59,917 --> 01:50:02,250 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2379 01:50:02,333 --> 01:50:04,458 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2380 01:50:04,542 --> 01:50:07,000 Article one is adopted. 2381 01:50:07,083 --> 01:50:09,333 ♪ 2382 01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,166 Mitch McConnell: I'm coordinating with White House counsel. 2383 01:50:14,250 --> 01:50:16,041 There will be no difference between 2384 01:50:16,125 --> 01:50:18,250 the President's position and our position. 2385 01:50:18,333 --> 01:50:20,083 We all know how it's gonna end. 2386 01:50:20,166 --> 01:50:21,583 There is no chance 2387 01:50:21,667 --> 01:50:24,000 the President's gonna be removed from office. 2388 01:50:25,041 --> 01:50:27,375 ♪ There's a lot of things ♪ 2389 01:50:27,458 --> 01:50:30,583 ♪ That we don't know about ♪ 2390 01:50:30,667 --> 01:50:33,125 Khanna: The President should not have taken an offensive action 2391 01:50:33,208 --> 01:50:35,834 against Iran without coming to Congress, 2392 01:50:35,917 --> 01:50:38,625 and this could get us into another Middle East war 2393 01:50:38,709 --> 01:50:40,625 where American lives are at risk, 2394 01:50:40,709 --> 01:50:42,792 and trillions of dollars are wasted. 2395 01:50:42,875 --> 01:50:45,125 ♪ 2396 01:50:45,208 --> 01:50:47,500 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2397 01:50:47,583 --> 01:50:50,125 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2398 01:50:50,208 --> 01:50:52,000 ♪ Impeach the President ♪ 2399 01:50:52,083 --> 01:50:54,166 Massie: An hour before I went to vote on that, 2400 01:50:54,250 --> 01:50:55,959 I got a call from the President, 2401 01:50:56,041 --> 01:50:59,125 and he wanted me to vote with the party, 2402 01:50:59,208 --> 01:51:02,625 or I was gonna get a primary challenge. 2403 01:51:02,709 --> 01:51:05,667 And sure enough, within 12 hours of voting 2404 01:51:05,750 --> 01:51:07,959 the way that I felt I should vote, 2405 01:51:08,041 --> 01:51:09,834 I got a primary opponent. 2406 01:51:09,917 --> 01:51:13,333 And now, the next 90 days of my life 2407 01:51:13,417 --> 01:51:15,333 are gonna be a sort of hell 2408 01:51:15,417 --> 01:51:17,583 where I have to go do what I hate to do 2409 01:51:17,667 --> 01:51:19,834 which is get on the phone, grovel, 2410 01:51:19,917 --> 01:51:22,291 raise money, and try to beat this guy. 2411 01:51:22,375 --> 01:51:24,667 And I can trace it all back to that one vote. 2412 01:51:24,750 --> 01:51:26,083 Interviewer: Do you regret your vote? 2413 01:51:26,166 --> 01:51:28,625 I don't regret that vote at all. I told the President, 2414 01:51:28,709 --> 01:51:32,000 "Look, if the worst thing that happens to me for this vote 2415 01:51:32,083 --> 01:51:35,208 "is I have to go back to my farm and live out my days, 2416 01:51:35,291 --> 01:51:37,291 I'm okay with that!" 2417 01:51:37,917 --> 01:51:40,750 ♪ 2418 01:51:43,875 --> 01:51:46,333 Buck: Taking on President Trump is unwise. 2419 01:51:46,417 --> 01:51:50,000 And President Trump has no problem doing a touchdown dance 2420 01:51:50,083 --> 01:51:52,667 every time a Republican critic loses. 2421 01:51:52,750 --> 01:51:55,375 And so he reinforces the idea 2422 01:51:55,458 --> 01:51:57,959 that it is a bad idea to take him on. 2423 01:51:58,041 --> 01:52:02,125 ♪ 2424 01:52:03,458 --> 01:52:05,166 Gaetz: I will never again 2425 01:52:05,250 --> 01:52:09,250 accept a donation from a federal political action committee. 2426 01:52:09,333 --> 01:52:10,792 Not one red cent. 2427 01:52:10,875 --> 01:52:15,166 The American people are my one and only special interest. 2428 01:52:15,750 --> 01:52:18,375 (cheering and applause) 2429 01:52:18,458 --> 01:52:19,792 Interviewer: How do you feel? 2430 01:52:19,875 --> 01:52:22,875 I feel great, man. Feel relieved. Feel like, uh... 2431 01:52:22,959 --> 01:52:25,208 Just like a tremendous weight has been lifted. 2432 01:52:25,291 --> 01:52:27,208 Don't know what it's gonna mean, but 2433 01:52:27,291 --> 01:52:30,083 I tell you, it's one of my best days in Congress. 2434 01:52:30,166 --> 01:52:34,291 ♪ 2435 01:52:59,667 --> 01:53:03,041 (dramatic orchestral music playing) 2436 01:53:04,917 --> 01:53:10,000 ♪