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The only thing worse in politics
than being wrong,

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is being boring.

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I'm not sick of winning yet.

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And we're crying out
as a nation.

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♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

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Thank you for having me.

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♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

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(dramatic,
patriotic music playing)

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Narrator 1:
The Capitol is
the very heart

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of our system
of representative
government.

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Members of the
House of Representatives

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are elected for short terms:
two years.

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But since they have to
come up for reelection
so often,

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they must constantly
be responsive to
the wishes of the voters.

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Narrator 2: The American
people are very proud
of their government,

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for it is a republic.

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This means a form
of democratic government

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where the people
are the rules of their l---

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(TV clicks off)

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Woman:
It's day eight of the
government shutdown,

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and neither side
is willing to budge.

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Man:
Discussions have broken down.

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We do expect this
to go on for a while.

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Matt Gaetz:
We are in, uh, what
used to be a work closet

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for the former Congressman
that had this office.

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Of the 435
members of Congress,

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more than 100 actually
live in the building.

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For some people,
it's an economic decision.

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For me, frankly,
it's just that,
I like being at work,

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and, uh, it gives me

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the maximum opportunity to get
the most out of every day.

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Gotta get the makeup on
first thing in the morning.
Got a lot of... hits.

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We usually do our TV
in the morning from here
in the Capitol,

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and there's no Fox News
makeup lady, so...

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you gotta contour the sides.

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Got my, uh,
weight loss chart here.

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My mother joked that
the camera added 10 pounds,

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so I needed to drop a few.

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All right, this is
the critical choice
of the day, here.

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The tie selection.

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Gotta figure out
what shoes go with

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purple and pewter.

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(chuckles)

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These are Ivanka's favorite.

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She was telling me
she liked my shoes.

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I wore 'em to the White House.

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When a Congressional seat
came open,

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I'd really started
to think about

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what this country
would be like in
a Donald Trump Presidency,

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and I knew that it would
not be like anything
we'd experienced before

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with any other type of
Republican or Democrat.

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I thought, this guy's got
some rough edges.

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He is very uncharacteristic
as a politician,

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but I felt like he was
exactly the type of person

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that could bring
the fight to a town
that badly needed it.

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That could be a change agent.

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And if I could be there,
and be of assistance,

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then I could contribute
to that change in
a positive way.

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Newscaster 1:
Nine percent
of Americans

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approve of the job
Congress is doing.

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That's the lowest
in our history.

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Newscaster 2:
All you see is gridlock.

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No one can agree on anything.

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Newscaster 3:
Congress is less popular

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than a colonoscopy.

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Man 4:
The American people
know that Congress

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is broken.
And it is broken.

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Woman:
I believe the voting system
is corrupt.

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I believe the politicians
are corrupt.

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I believe the Congress
is corrupt.

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Man 6:
Each and every
piece of legislation

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virtually has its own
price tag on it.

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Elizabeth Warren:
Giant corporations have
bought off our government.

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Bernie Sanders:
The American political system

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has become totally corrupted,

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and the foundations
of American democracy

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are being undermined.

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Donald Trump:
The unholy alliance of
lobbyists and donors

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and special interests
is bleeding our country dry.

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Man:
Trump is different because

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he doesn't have to
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and the lobbyists.

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It's time to drain the swamp
in Washington, DC.

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We are going to
drain the swamp...

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It's time to drain the swamp
of corruption...

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We're gonna drain the swamp
of Washington...

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We're gonna have fun doing it,
and we're all doing it
together.

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Crowd (chanting):
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!

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Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!

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Gaetz:
You ask whether it's ever
possible to drain the swamp.

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As President Trump
loves to say,

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"We'll see."

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Nancy Pelosi:
Thanks to you,

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tomorrow will be
a new day in America.

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Newscaster:
Democrats rode a blue wave
to the majority,

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setting up what should be
a contentious atmosphere
in Washington,

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in 2019 and beyond.

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Kevin McCarthy:
Fellow citizens and friends,

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let us lead together
to show the people that

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we are truly their voice,
and their vote.

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In that spirit,

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I extend my hand of friendship

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to every member of this body.

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And to the
Speaker of the House,

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Nancy Pelosi,

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I extend to you this gavel.

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-(cheering and applause)
-Thank you...

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Gaetz:
There is an essence
of this place

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that doesn't change
no matter who wins
the elections.

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Republicans. Democrats.

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And the majority party
is simply the party that
is first in line

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to be the servant
to the special interest
overlords.

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I think that machinery,
that infrastructure,

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that's the swamp.

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A member of Congress

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cannot ask another
member of Congress

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for money in this building.

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We are in the
Longworth office building.

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Or the Cannon office building,
or anywhere else.

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Except the floor of the
House of Representatives.

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So, like, when we were
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I had a more senior member
come to me,

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and they gave me
my assessment card.

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And so, your assessment card
lets you know

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how much money you owe
the party bosses.

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It says my name,
the Honorable Matt Gaetz,

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that my spring dinner assessment

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is $55,000.

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This is a call
to wealthy people,

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who, by virtue of
their commitment,
or their special interest,

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would like to give me $55,000

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to come have dinner
with me and my colleagues.

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Now, like, I find myself
to be a very pleasant,

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uh, dinner guest,

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but I cannot imagine anyone,

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uh, willing to pay $55,000
to have dinner with me.

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This is my namesake,
Matt Gaetz, the first.

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Uh, he built railroads
in North Dakota.

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And this is my grandfather,
Jerry Gaetz.

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He was a state Senator,

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and, uh, ran for
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Gave the speech
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and as soon as he
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had a heart attack and died.

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My father served
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and so I am the
fourth generation of Gaetz

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to be in public life.

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I keep this picture
of a bill signing
with President Trump,

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mostly because I have
no idea why I was there.

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This is a bill that I had
almost no role in crafting.

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Uh, I think I voted for it,

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but, uh, sometimes the President
just likes to be around
some of his buddies.

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Trump:
You ever watch this guy
on television?

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He's like a machine.
He's great.

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Matt Gaetz.

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(cheering, whistling)

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Great guy.

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Gaetz:
I think the President
is doing

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all that he can to change
the ways of Washington.

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And it'd be a hell of a note
if we'd have his back
in Congress

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every once in a while.

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Wolf Blitzer:
One hour from now,

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President Trump's
former lawyer,

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his confidante, his fixer,

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will unleash a point-by-point
take down

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like none seen against
a sitting President of
the United States.

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Cohen made millions of dollars
by promising access

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to his client, the President.

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Mika Brzezinski:
Florida Congressman
Matt Gaetz,

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a staunch defender
of President Trump,

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took to Twitter
yesterday evening.

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"Hey, Michael Cohen,
do your wife and father-in-law

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"know about your girlfriends?

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"Maybe tonight would be
a good time for that chat.

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"I wonder if she'll
remain faithful
when you're in prison.

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She's about to learn a lot."

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A ll the replies and comments
on Twitter was like,

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"That's witness intimidation.

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That's witness tampering.
You're gonna go to jail."

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Reporter: Were you
trying to intimidate him
with those tweets?

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Listen, I didn't want
to intimidate Cohen.
I want Cohen here.

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It's not intimidation
and it's entirely appropriate

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to provide context for people

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who have a history of lying
and likely a future of lying.

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There were some
who thought it was threatening,

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and that was absolutely
not my intent.

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And so I deleted it
for that purpose.

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Reporter 2:
Why did you come down
to the hearing today?

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'Cause I'm a member of Congress.

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Um, some people think
it was inappropriate
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considering your tweet.
What do you have to say
about that?

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-Nothing.
-Thank you.

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I believe that right now,
with the start of
the Cohen hearing,

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we're in the first quarter
of the impeachment.

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I think that Democrats
are certain to impeach
the President,

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and while it's terrible that
we're gonna go through
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it will not result in
a conviction.

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At least the forgotten
men and women of this country

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will have every reason
to show up in 2020
and re-elect their President.

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I think that's gonna be
the ultimate result.

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Michael Cohen:
This conversation
with Mr. Trump started--

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I didn't ask whether
you were a good fixer.

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I asked whether you were
a good lawyer.

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Sometimes you have to
meld both together.

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Massie, he said he was gonna
yield me some of his time

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if I'd been given unanimous
consent to participate.

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I'm kind of glad he didn't.
His questions are very good.

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Thomas Massie (over TV):
...good job. You said
you were a good lawyer, right?

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Is that being a good lawyer?

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To not even consider
whether it's legal or not?

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Gaetz:
What do you think that
what we've seen now

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does to the Democrats'
obvious desire to engage
in impeachment?

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Um, I think if this
was the foundation,

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it's, it's shifting
on them already.

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(chuckling)
It's very unstable.

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He admitted to being
a scumbag lawyer.

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-Those are two
different things.
-(laughs)

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-They're not blended.
-I'm not a lawyer. He is.
(chuckles)

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Massie:
I'm an engineer at heart,
and by training.

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Growing up, I liked
taking things apart

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and putting them
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So, I went to M.I.T.

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to get an electrical
engineering degree,

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and I hung around
and got a mechanical
engineering degree,

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and started my own company.

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When you hold the PHANTOM
in your hand,

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you can actually feel the shape
that's on the computer screen.

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I invented
a virtual reality device

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that lets you touch and feel
three-dimensional objects.

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So I started out in
the virtual reality industry,

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and then after 10 years,
I sold my ownership in that,

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moved back to Kentucky,
and got back to reality
on the farm.

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But then I ran for Congress
and entered virtual reality
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I'm kind of a Libertarian,

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but kind of prefer the label
Constitutional Conservative.

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I think we should
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and put government
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that the founding
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Newscaster:
After three months now
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freshman Republican
Thomas Massie

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has already earned a nickname
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"Mr. No."

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Massie:
Up here, they've called me
"Mr. No."

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If you heard that nickname,
you'd think I vote no
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but I looked this up.

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I only vote no, like,
25 percent of the time.

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Twenty-five percent
dissension with your party

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is a heretic in Washington, DC.

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And if people are gonna
drain the swamp,

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like the President
wants to do,

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they need better information

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about how
this place is broken.

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And that's my mission
in Congress.

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So, my friend Justin Amash--

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he's a Congressman
from Michigan--

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got me this for my birthday,

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because we both kind of
look at the Capitol
as the Death Star.

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("Star Wars" soundtrack playing)

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I mean, if you come up here
to visit, there's scaffolding
on it all the time.

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It looks like
it's being worked on,
but it's fully functional.

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And it can destroy happiness
and life anywhere

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on the globe.

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(exploding)

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What I'm doing up here
is looking for the one
weakness in the Death Star.

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(soundtrack continues)

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But sometimes I end up
in the trash compactor.

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Interviewer:
Who's Darth Vader?

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(Massie laughing)

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Massie:
Well, Darth Vader
was Paul Ryan,

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but now it's Nancy Pelosi.
(laughing)

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(elevator dings)

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So this one is reserved
for members of Congress.

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Not many of us have the heart

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to kick somebody off
who's not a member.

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Virginia Foxx is notorious
for kicking people off,

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but she won't just kick
the staffers off the elevator.

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She asks them
who they work for,

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'cause she tells on 'em, too.

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Hey, Virginia.

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I was just telling them,
you keep,

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you keep our elevator
for members only.

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-These folks are-- (laughs)
-I do my best.

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Massie:
It's so exhausting

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to run in place.

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And to get nothing done.

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That's the frustrating thing
to me.

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The most frustrating thing
to me is the fact that

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we know what's wrong.

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Every year, we don't pass
a budget on time.

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We wait until the day
before Christmas,

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and everybody
wants to get out of town.

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Everybody votes for this
ridiculous spending bill

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that nobody's read.

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And then we pretend that
we're fiscal Conservatives,

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and the hypocrisy of,

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uh, pretending that
we care about spending,

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and "we," as the general "we,"
we care about spending.

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-Massie: Please use
the general "we."
-Yeah.

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-'Cause I don't like to think...
-It's not you and I.

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-...we're doing any of that.
-Right.

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Ken Buck:
My name is Ken Buck,

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and I was the founding member

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of the Freedom Caucus
in the House,

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which is the
Conservative group
that was formed in 2015.

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Freedom Caucus
has always been
a loyal opposition

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within the Republican party,

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and so I don't expect, uh,
members of the Freedom Caucus

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to get leadership positions.
That's not our role.

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Our role is to try to be
the conscience of the party.

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I had stage 4
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,

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and my sense of purpose
is different

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after cancer than before,
so I feel like

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whether I get
reelected or not,

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I'm here to do
the right thing.

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And the right thing to me
was to expose what goes on
in Congress,

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and make sure
the American public
knows about it.

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For many of
the members of Congress,

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it's a job that they
don't want to give up,

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and so, their reelection
is more important than

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the actual problem solving
that, that needs to go on in DC.

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I wrote "Drain the Swamp"
during my first term
in Congress,

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because we were
told by leadership
right from the beginning,

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"Here are all the goodies
that you can enjoy

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if you play the game
the way we want you
to play the game."

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And the game is

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agreeing with leadership.

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Agreeing with
the special interest groups

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on, on how to vote.

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And, and how to govern.

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I'm not one of those people
that's not very agreeable.

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The problem with
the Republican party now is,

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we have such a fresh history

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of violating the Constitution,

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of violating
fiscal responsibility,

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of violating personal
accountability,

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that we don't have a high ground

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to stand and say,
"You guys are doing
the wrong thing."

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♪

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Lawrence Lessig:
I'd spent many years
trying to push policy

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that would make the regulation
of culture more sensible.

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And the regulation
of the internet more effective.

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And while in the courts
we made progress,

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Congress was constantly
resisting.

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At a certain point,
a friend of mine

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basically said to me,
"So, why do you think

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"you're ever going to
make any progress,

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"so long as we have
this deep corruption

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in our government?"

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I realized he was
exactly right,

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so literally that night,

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I promised him I would
give up my old career,

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and take up a new career.
That was about a dozen
years ago.

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Before we were Republicans,

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before we were Democrats,

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we were citizens first.

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We need citizen soldiers
fighting for a democracy

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that is beyond party.

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That is above party.

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That is focused on
citizens first.

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♪

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The Constitution,
in Article One,
sets up Congress.

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Framers gave
the pride of place

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to the most important
democratic institution

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within our republic.

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Madison describes Congress
as being a body
that would be, quote,

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"...dependent on
the people alone."

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And I think
the most important man

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in the history of Congress,
after Madison,

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is Newt Gingrich.

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And I think Newt Gingrich
destroyed Congress.

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Newt was a very ambitious
history professor

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who came to Congress

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and was keen to
turn the Republicans

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into a kind of
militant opposition,

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and then he won control
of the House for
the Republicans

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for the first time in 40 years
in the 1994 election.

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And starting in 1995,

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he began to change the
institution fundamentally.

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On the first day of
the 104th Congress,

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the new Republican majority
will immediately pass

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the following major reforms.

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Lessig:
One of the ways
he changed the institution

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was to basically
begin the process

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of shifting Congress people over

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to the life as fundraisers.

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He told them, "Don't move
your families to Washington.

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We'll work three days a week."

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The rest of the time,
you know,

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he said you could be
going home,
but what happens is,

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the rest of the time,
they're out there
raising money.

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It becomes their
perpetual campaign,

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which dramatically increases
the amount of money

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that both sides are
bringing into the process.

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He has changed the culture,
changed the agenda,

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changed the language,
and changed the dialogue.

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Lessig: Gingrich's change
in the structure of power
in the House

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was all about assuring
that the Speaker

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could direct everything.

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And the Democrats followed.
It's not like it's different

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on the Democrats' side.

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Buck:
The Speaker controls
the schedule,

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what bills go to the floor,
what comes out of committee,

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who the members are
of the committee.

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Massie:
I think a lot of people would
be surprised to find out

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that members of Congress

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are expected
to pay their party

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for their
committee assignments.

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And this is, like,
$200,000, $500,000

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every election cycle,

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just to get a certain
committee seat.

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Now, where are you
gonna get that money?

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You're not gonna go back home
and have a fundraiser

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in somebody's living room.
That just doesn't work.

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The people that fund
your purchase of
the committee seat

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are the people who have
an interest

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in the work product
of that committee,

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i.e. the lobbyists.

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Gaetz:
Every committee
in the Congress

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has a letter grade
associated with it--

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A, B, or C.

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That letter grade
is solely lashed to

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that committee's ability
to generate campaign cash
for its members.

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If you're on
the ways and means
committee,

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then you have jurisdiction
over the entire tax code.

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There is no lobbyist
in this town

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that would not swim
across the Potomac

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to deliver you
a $5,000 back check.

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But if you're on
the Veterans Affairs Committee,

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which is really important,

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you just don't have the same
bevy of special interests

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thirsting for your attention
with donations.

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Lessig:
Under Newt Gingrich,
committee chairmanships

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were increasingly assigned
to people who raised money.

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And if you didn't
raise that money--

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the Democrats did this,
Nancy Pelosi did this--

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you kicked somebody off
the chairmanship.

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So this is all about changing
what was supposed to be

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a really critical
institutional role

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played by a chairman--
somebody who knows
something about the field--

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into just the most effective
fundraiser in that field.

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Massie:
So there's a price tag
assigned to every committee.

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But there's also a price tag
assigned to being the Speaker.

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So, the Speaker up here
is expected to raise about
$80 million

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every election cycle,
and dole that out.

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Buck:
The Speaker and
the minority leader

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control distribution
of funds to members,

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so it's the rank-and-file
that chooses the leadership,

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but people misunderstand
that somehow we're
choosing people,

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you know, that we think
are the best at articulating
our positions.

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That's not true.
It's who can raise the money,

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and the special
interest groups
control the money.

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So, the hierarchy of power
in Washington, DC,

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is special interest groups,
leadership,
rank-and-file members.

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Lessig:
That system is a system that
makes the members of Congress

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so sensitive to what
the lobbyists want

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that it's hard for them
to see above the water

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and recognize what
the public needs.

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And that dynamic

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is the corruption,
I think of, as the swamp.

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Gaetz:
The special interests

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don't really want anything
to get done in this town,

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because if we actually
started working together
on some stuff,

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things would change.
And if things change,

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the people who
are getting rich
off the current system

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would not be getting rich
off that system.

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That's why I think that
the greatest challenge we face

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is not Republicans
versus Democrats.

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It's reformers against
those who want to maintain
the status quo.

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And we got Republicans
and Democrats in both groups.

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Ro Khanna:
My view is,

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we need a more progressive
vision for America,

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but a vision is insufficient

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if you don't get things done.

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And I do think that
there is an appetite

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among the newer generation
of members of Congress

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to build broad coalitions,

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and we always have to
listen to criticism

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from the other side,
and understand that
they're representing

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a particular
constituency in America

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and a particular perspective.

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Gaetz:
We would be sort of
an odd couple, politically.

487
00:22:02,875 --> 00:22:05,500
I am a Tea Party Republican
from Florida.

488
00:22:05,583 --> 00:22:09,125
Ro served in the
Obama administration and
represents Silicon Valley.

489
00:22:09,208 --> 00:22:12,625
But folks like Ro even,
who maybe don't hold
my ideology

490
00:22:12,709 --> 00:22:14,125
or my view on every subject,

491
00:22:14,208 --> 00:22:16,834
understand that
this place has to change

492
00:22:16,917 --> 00:22:19,291
if we want to do right
by the American people.

493
00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:21,834
Khanna:
We came here to work for
the people who sent us here.

494
00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:24,500
Not for the leadership,
not for committee chairs.

495
00:22:24,583 --> 00:22:26,500
And not, certainly,
for the lobbyists.

496
00:22:26,583 --> 00:22:30,417
All right, so, some reforms
that would surprise people
we would agree on.

497
00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,500
-Would you vote
for term limits?
-I would.

498
00:22:32,583 --> 00:22:34,667
I'm one of two Democrats
or so who will.

499
00:22:34,750 --> 00:22:36,250
See, I would vote
for term limits.

500
00:22:36,333 --> 00:22:38,250
Would you vote
for non-partisan
redistricting commissions?

501
00:22:38,333 --> 00:22:40,291
-I would.
I think that would be great.
-I would vote for that.

502
00:22:40,375 --> 00:22:43,500
Would you vote on
a lifetime ban on lobbying
for members of Congress?

503
00:22:43,583 --> 00:22:47,125
I would. I think there
should be a--
no revolving door.

504
00:22:47,208 --> 00:22:48,542
And would you ban lobbyists

505
00:22:48,625 --> 00:22:50,458
from giving money
to members of Congress?

506
00:22:50,542 --> 00:22:53,000
I would, and, and, uh,
I don't take lobbyists' money,

507
00:22:53,083 --> 00:22:54,834
and I think we should
ban lobbyists from doing that.

508
00:22:54,917 --> 00:22:57,166
See? That's the
"drain the swamp" agenda.
Khanna-Gaetz.

509
00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,583
We could run on that
and unite 80 percent
of the country.

510
00:23:00,667 --> 00:23:04,125
♪

511
00:23:09,041 --> 00:23:10,709
-Good morning.
-Massie: How you doing?

512
00:23:10,792 --> 00:23:12,709
-I'm Diana Ohlbaum from FCNL.
-Oh, okay.

513
00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:14,750
-Nice to meet you, Diana.
-Thank you so much for
your vote on this,

514
00:23:14,834 --> 00:23:16,208
-and your support.
-Yeah, well...

515
00:23:16,291 --> 00:23:17,583
Diana Ohlbaum:
You're a real key person.

516
00:23:17,667 --> 00:23:19,041
Massie:
I think you might be surprised

517
00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:22,291
how many Conservatives
are just done with war.

518
00:23:22,375 --> 00:23:24,125
Right now,
as I'm serving in Congress,

519
00:23:24,208 --> 00:23:25,709
this is one of my top issues,

520
00:23:25,792 --> 00:23:29,375
is to reclaim the constitutional
power of Congress to declare war

521
00:23:29,458 --> 00:23:31,667
back from the executive branch.

522
00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:34,083
Newscaster:
California Democratic
Congresswoman Barbara Lee

523
00:23:34,166 --> 00:23:36,625
and Kentucky Republican
Congressman Thomas Massie

524
00:23:36,709 --> 00:23:39,834
want to repeal
the 2001 authorization

525
00:23:39,917 --> 00:23:42,000
for the use of military force.

526
00:23:42,667 --> 00:23:44,417
Massie:
After 9-11,

527
00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,375
there was so much appetite
for doing something

528
00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:50,333
that it was almost
political suicide

529
00:23:50,417 --> 00:23:52,667
if you decided not to vote
for an AUMF

530
00:23:52,750 --> 00:23:55,250
that was responsive
to the terrorist attacks.

531
00:23:55,333 --> 00:23:57,333
George W. Bush:
We will make no distinction

532
00:23:57,417 --> 00:24:00,625
between the terrorists
who committed these acts

533
00:24:00,709 --> 00:24:02,333
and those who harbor them.

534
00:24:02,417 --> 00:24:03,917
Barbara Lee:
As we act,

535
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,959
let us not become the evil
that we deplore.

536
00:24:09,041 --> 00:24:12,834
Massie:
Barbara Lee was the lone vote
against the AUMF,

537
00:24:12,917 --> 00:24:17,709
and she did prove that
you could stand on principle,

538
00:24:17,792 --> 00:24:20,709
and eventually be right,

539
00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:22,667
and still survive politically,

540
00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:24,959
but a lot of the people
who went against the grain

541
00:24:25,041 --> 00:24:26,875
did not survive politically.

542
00:24:26,959 --> 00:24:29,667
Lee:
Our constituents
sent us to Congress

543
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,667
to make the hard decisions.

544
00:24:31,750 --> 00:24:35,291
We owe it to the American people
to take these tough votes,

545
00:24:35,375 --> 00:24:39,166
and repeal the 2001
authorization.

546
00:24:39,250 --> 00:24:41,458
Ari Melber:
Bush invoked the bill
for potential actions

547
00:24:41,542 --> 00:24:42,959
in over 11
different countries.

548
00:24:43,041 --> 00:24:44,333
His successor
added nine more,

549
00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:46,917
including places that had
no tie to 9-11.

550
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,792
The overreach here
began with Bush,

551
00:24:48,875 --> 00:24:51,625
but the Pentagon
and Presidents in both parties

552
00:24:51,709 --> 00:24:55,417
tend to hold on to major powers,
not just give them up.

553
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,250
Buck:
Our founding fathers
wanted to make sure

554
00:24:58,333 --> 00:25:00,542
that a decision
that was as significant

555
00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:05,125
as sending Americans
overseas to fight
and lose their lives

556
00:25:05,208 --> 00:25:07,500
would only be made
with a vote

557
00:25:07,583 --> 00:25:09,792
in the people's House,
and in the Senate,

558
00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:12,000
and so I think it's really
important that we respect that.

559
00:25:12,083 --> 00:25:14,417
I think it was the right move
in the Constitution,

560
00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:15,792
and we've gotten away from that.

561
00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:19,792
There's a reason that
our founders gave Congress

562
00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:21,500
the power over war and peace.

563
00:25:21,583 --> 00:25:24,333
Because we have to go
and answer to our constituents.

564
00:25:24,417 --> 00:25:27,625
And I'll tell you something.
There's not a single American

565
00:25:27,709 --> 00:25:30,000
who wouldn't want
the violence to end,

566
00:25:30,083 --> 00:25:34,291
and allow food and medicine
to get to those kids

567
00:25:34,375 --> 00:25:37,166
who are gonna face death
if we do nothing.

568
00:25:37,250 --> 00:25:40,000
I built a coalition
in the House

569
00:25:40,083 --> 00:25:43,583
to try to end support
for the war in Yemen,

570
00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:45,875
and we passed
a war powers resolution,

571
00:25:45,959 --> 00:25:49,208
and there were 16 Republicans
who helped with that effort.

572
00:25:49,291 --> 00:25:51,291
Buck:
That was something
where we had

573
00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:53,083
a number of
Freedom Caucus members

574
00:25:53,166 --> 00:25:54,959
and a number of
progressive caucus members

575
00:25:55,041 --> 00:25:57,208
working together to pass that.

576
00:25:57,291 --> 00:25:59,625
When it comes to war powers,

577
00:25:59,709 --> 00:26:01,458
those two groups
can work together.

578
00:26:01,542 --> 00:26:04,709
Massie:
This is not a partisan issue
and that's why I'm here today.

579
00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:09,291
There are only about
70 members of Congress
out of the 435

580
00:26:09,375 --> 00:26:11,625
that are serving today
who were actually here

581
00:26:11,709 --> 00:26:14,000
for the original AUMF vote.

582
00:26:14,083 --> 00:26:18,041
And I can tell you,
those 70 who voted for it
never imagined,

583
00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:20,125
except perhaps
Barbara Lee imagined,

584
00:26:20,208 --> 00:26:23,542
that this would be used
to justify all of the wars

585
00:26:23,625 --> 00:26:26,500
that have gone on since then,
and all of the military
engagements,

586
00:26:26,583 --> 00:26:30,375
and possible future engagements
from here on out.

587
00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:35,917
Gaetz:
I represent the district
that's got the highest

588
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,083
concentration of active duty
military in the country.

589
00:26:39,166 --> 00:26:41,583
But I am no cheerleader
for war.

590
00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:44,542
Emcee: I'd just like
to welcome to the stage
Congressman Matt Gaetz.

591
00:26:44,625 --> 00:26:47,834
-Gaetz: Thank you.
Oh, thank you, guys.
-(applause)

592
00:26:47,917 --> 00:26:51,000
Gaetz:
I've seen my whole life,
living in my district,

593
00:26:51,083 --> 00:26:53,917
what the impacts of war
really are for families.

594
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,417
Parenting disrupted.
Marriages destroyed.

595
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:01,542
Drug abuse.
Domestic abuse.
Veteran suicide.

596
00:27:01,834 --> 00:27:04,333
Caskets draped in flags.

597
00:27:04,417 --> 00:27:07,291
As I travel home to
north Florida this week,

598
00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:09,375
I will meet with
commanding officers.

599
00:27:09,458 --> 00:27:13,166
They will brief me
on the missions and
preparations undertaken,

600
00:27:13,250 --> 00:27:16,750
and if called to combat,
my neighbors will go first,

601
00:27:16,834 --> 00:27:18,417
and they'll fight the hardest.

602
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,125
Now I'm at a place
with the President

603
00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:22,208
where we speak
very regularly.

604
00:27:22,291 --> 00:27:25,208
And so if I can be
a good advisor, supporter,

605
00:27:25,291 --> 00:27:27,291
influencer to President Trump,

606
00:27:27,375 --> 00:27:30,417
that will give me a chance
to impact the world by

607
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,917
contributing to, you know,
the most valuable real estate

608
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,375
that exists in Washington,

609
00:27:34,458 --> 00:27:36,875
and that's between
the President's ears.

610
00:27:37,208 --> 00:27:41,000
♪

611
00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:44,333
We're here in Seaside.

612
00:27:44,417 --> 00:27:46,917
This is, uh, where my family
has spent our,

613
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,917
really most of our family time
most of my life.

614
00:27:50,750 --> 00:27:53,041
This little gazebo up here,

615
00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:56,625
critical spot in the life
of Matt Gaetz.

616
00:27:56,709 --> 00:28:00,250
It's the, uh,
site of my first kiss,
right here.

617
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,917
I'd tell you who,
but it would probably be
very embarrassing for them.

618
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,583
So this is the Truman house,
and in the mid '90s,

619
00:28:08,667 --> 00:28:13,333
one day some producer
just shows up in a golf cart,

620
00:28:13,417 --> 00:28:17,417
and, uh, tells my mother
that they want to make
a movie in this house,

621
00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,041
starring Jim Carrey.

622
00:28:19,792 --> 00:28:20,750
Good morning!

623
00:28:20,834 --> 00:28:22,709
-Morning!
-Good morning!

624
00:28:22,917 --> 00:28:24,291
Oh, and in case
I don't see you,

625
00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:26,291
good afternoon,
good evening,
and good night.

626
00:28:26,375 --> 00:28:28,333
Gaetz:
He made a few other movies
and then ended up

627
00:28:28,417 --> 00:28:29,667
painting a portrait of me.

628
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:31,709
And so,
it wasn't the most flattering,

629
00:28:31,792 --> 00:28:35,458
but nonetheless,
it was pretty cool
to see it come full circle.

630
00:28:35,542 --> 00:28:37,709
So, this is the house
I grew up in,

631
00:28:37,792 --> 00:28:41,959
and this was my bedroom
during my formative years.

632
00:28:44,959 --> 00:28:48,500
And voila! Love America.

633
00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:50,959
Hey, everyone.
This is Congressman
Matt Gaetz.

634
00:28:51,041 --> 00:28:52,834
I'm out on Navarre Beach now,

635
00:28:52,917 --> 00:28:55,959
but today is our
Won't Back Down
Town Hall tour.

636
00:28:56,041 --> 00:28:59,125
("I Won't Back Down"
by Tom Petty playing)

637
00:29:01,583 --> 00:29:03,333
Good to see you guys.

638
00:29:03,417 --> 00:29:05,792
(cheering and applause)

639
00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:11,166
I am proud of the fact that
I have been a leading member
of the Congress

640
00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:14,542
to expose the 22-month
witch hunt,

641
00:29:14,625 --> 00:29:18,083
lie, unfair investigation
of our President.

642
00:29:18,166 --> 00:29:20,333
(cheering and applause)

643
00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:25,083
What will it take
to reinitiate

644
00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:28,834
going after Hillary Clinton
for obstruction of justice,

645
00:29:28,917 --> 00:29:32,041
-and Benghazi?
-(all cheering)

646
00:29:35,917 --> 00:29:38,625
We gotta call on more people
from the bar area.

647
00:29:38,709 --> 00:29:40,959
They got it going on.

648
00:29:41,041 --> 00:29:45,166
Woman: I'm concerned
about our young kids
in elementary school

649
00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:47,583
that do not know
the Pledge of Allegiance.

650
00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:51,125
And then when you go
to a football game and
they're in high school,

651
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:52,667
nobody sings the words.

652
00:29:52,750 --> 00:29:55,709
Everybody just stand there
like a dummy.

653
00:29:55,792 --> 00:29:58,083
(scattered applause)

654
00:29:58,166 --> 00:30:01,792
You want to sing a few bar--
You want to sing a few bars
for us?

655
00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:05,959
Both:
♪ O say, can you see ♪

656
00:30:06,041 --> 00:30:10,208
♪ By the dawn's early light ♪

657
00:30:10,291 --> 00:30:14,458
♪ What so proudly we hail ♪

658
00:30:14,542 --> 00:30:18,709
♪ At the twilight's
last gleaming ♪

659
00:30:18,792 --> 00:30:23,542
-(crowd joins in)
-♪ Whose bright stripes
and bright stars ♪

660
00:30:23,625 --> 00:30:27,291
♪ Through the perilous fight  ♪

661
00:30:27,375 --> 00:30:30,959
Gaetz: My district is
one of the most Conservative
districts in the country.

662
00:30:31,041 --> 00:30:35,083
But one of the little pockets
of liberalism that we have

663
00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:37,083
is in downtown Pensacola.

664
00:30:37,166 --> 00:30:39,500
It's the most urban area
of my district,

665
00:30:39,583 --> 00:30:42,959
and so I guess it would be easy
for me to only go to the places

666
00:30:43,041 --> 00:30:45,041
where everyone's
a Matt Gaetz cheerleader,

667
00:30:45,125 --> 00:30:47,417
but I have an obligation

668
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:50,917
to serve and appear
before people who
don't agree with me.

669
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,917
Crowd (chanting):
Love, not hate!

670
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,583
Makes America great!

671
00:30:54,667 --> 00:30:56,583
Love, not hate!

672
00:30:56,667 --> 00:30:58,667
Makes America great!

673
00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:00,750
Love, not hate!

674
00:31:00,834 --> 00:31:02,875
Makes America great!

675
00:31:02,959 --> 00:31:04,667
Love, not hate!

676
00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:06,542
Makes America great!

677
00:31:06,625 --> 00:31:08,458
Gaetz:
Thank you all for coming.

678
00:31:08,542 --> 00:31:11,041
Appreciate seeing you here.

679
00:31:11,125 --> 00:31:13,417
-(chanting continues)
-Woman: Love, not hate!

680
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,125
Gaetz:
Thank you all for coming.

681
00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,250
Hey, good to see you all.
Thanks for coming.

682
00:31:17,333 --> 00:31:18,875
Man: Hey, Matt,
thanks for coming.

683
00:31:18,959 --> 00:31:21,125
Oh, I'm honored.
I'm honored.
Hey, thank you all for coming.

684
00:31:21,208 --> 00:31:23,166
(applause)

685
00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:24,750
Man:
Hallelujah!

686
00:31:24,834 --> 00:31:27,500
-(cheering)
-Hey. Hey, it's good to see you.

687
00:31:28,375 --> 00:31:30,125
I am concerned
for our government.

688
00:31:30,208 --> 00:31:33,208
If there could ever be
a takeover or a coup,

689
00:31:33,291 --> 00:31:36,750
it really bothers me, that,
uh, that this could happen.

690
00:31:36,834 --> 00:31:41,000
You know, when I first
started to uncover this
troubling evidence

691
00:31:41,083 --> 00:31:43,709
of people who didn't view
their obligations

692
00:31:43,792 --> 00:31:45,709
as conducting investigations,

693
00:31:45,792 --> 00:31:48,417
but instead thought that
their role was to remove

694
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,875
the duly elected President
of the United States.

695
00:31:50,959 --> 00:31:53,834
I came out and said,
"That is what a coup is."

696
00:31:53,917 --> 00:31:55,875
-Woman: Not true!
-That is what treason
looks like,

697
00:31:55,959 --> 00:31:59,333
and that's what we're
gonna find out with
Attorney General Barr

698
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,375
who is gonna turn the tables
on the people

699
00:32:01,458 --> 00:32:04,000
who are trying
to destroy our country.

700
00:32:04,083 --> 00:32:05,792
Woman:
That's a lie!

701
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:07,959
Speak the truth!

702
00:32:08,041 --> 00:32:09,291
Boo!

703
00:32:09,375 --> 00:32:11,500
Crowd (chanting):
Hey hey! Ho ho!

704
00:32:11,583 --> 00:32:13,417
Baby Gaetz has got to go!

705
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,166
Hey hey! Ho ho!

706
00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:17,041
Baby Gaetz has got to go!

707
00:32:17,125 --> 00:32:19,417
-Hey hey! Ho ho!
-Man: 1.2 million dollars!

708
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:21,834
Hey! Thank you all--

709
00:32:22,667 --> 00:32:24,750
-(woman chanting)
-Who threw that?

710
00:32:24,834 --> 00:32:26,208
Who threw that?
You go get them.

711
00:32:26,291 --> 00:32:28,250
Woman (chanting):
Whose beach? Whose beach?

712
00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:30,000
Whose beach?

713
00:32:30,083 --> 00:32:31,709
Thank you all so much
for coming.

714
00:32:31,792 --> 00:32:34,083
I'm grateful you're here.
Thank you.

715
00:32:34,166 --> 00:32:36,750
-Whose beach? Whose beach?
-Our beach! Our beach!

716
00:32:36,959 --> 00:32:39,000
Woman:
You're embarrassing us.

717
00:32:43,417 --> 00:32:45,959
Luke Ball:
When that went viral
on social media,

718
00:32:46,041 --> 00:32:50,291
we started seeing increasingly
violent responses to it.

719
00:32:50,375 --> 00:32:52,333
And it led to people saying,

720
00:32:52,417 --> 00:32:53,792
"We're gonna throw
urine on you,"

721
00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:55,542
and then it led to
a death threat.

722
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,750
I'll play it for you.

723
00:32:57,834 --> 00:32:59,834
Man (on phone):
Hey, Gaetz,

724
00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:02,041
you pathetic piece of shit.

725
00:33:02,125 --> 00:33:05,458
Do you know that I could
blow your fucking head

726
00:33:05,542 --> 00:33:09,250
clean off your shoulders
from over a mile away?

727
00:33:09,333 --> 00:33:12,166
You got your head
so far up Trump's ass...

728
00:33:12,250 --> 00:33:15,667
Ha, ha, ha!
I could still take it
off your shoulders.

729
00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:19,000
I'm coming after you
and your family, Gaetz.

730
00:33:19,083 --> 00:33:22,417
This Congress,
we're on record
for 10,000 threats

731
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,875
against members of Congress,
and I condemn them,

732
00:33:24,959 --> 00:33:27,000
whether they're against
Republicans, Democrats,

733
00:33:27,083 --> 00:33:28,458
-Liberals, Conservatives.
-Of course.

734
00:33:28,542 --> 00:33:30,291
You know, this is just no way

735
00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:31,834
to operate within our country.

736
00:33:31,917 --> 00:33:33,375
Lessig:
Congress operates

737
00:33:33,458 --> 00:33:36,000
inside of a media environment,

738
00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:39,542
that itself profits from
the politics of hate.

739
00:33:39,625 --> 00:33:42,458
Everybody profits from
the politics of hate.

740
00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:44,583
The liars in
the Democratic party,

741
00:33:44,667 --> 00:33:46,834
you can never
trust these people, ever.

742
00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:49,834
The Republican party is now
fully and totally responsible

743
00:33:49,917 --> 00:33:53,417
for these racist, divisive,
un-American ideas.

744
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,917
Do you want people here
on merit, or not?

745
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,834
Do you want people to come here
to speak English, or not?

746
00:33:58,917 --> 00:34:01,542
This is not just a group
of desperate migrants.

747
00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:04,041
We have people
who are criminals,

748
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:07,083
thugs, special interest aliens,
jihadists.

749
00:34:07,166 --> 00:34:09,583
You brought to the
State of the Union,
or you gave a ticket to,

750
00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:13,709
somebody who is a fairly
notorious racist
and Holocaust denier.

751
00:34:13,792 --> 00:34:15,458
Look, he's
a controversial figure.

752
00:34:15,542 --> 00:34:18,500
There were plenty
of controversial folks at
the State of the Union.

753
00:34:18,583 --> 00:34:22,166
The way that you're able
to elevate your profile
in Washington

754
00:34:22,250 --> 00:34:23,792
is to drive conflict,

755
00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:25,792
because conflict
is interesting.

756
00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:28,709
And I think that the really
powerful people in this town

757
00:34:28,792 --> 00:34:31,917
are the ones that can
go on television
and make an argument.

758
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,041
And that's power that
the leadership can
never take away from you.

759
00:34:35,125 --> 00:34:37,041
-We're still on for Cuomo
tonight, right?
-Woman: Correct.

760
00:34:37,125 --> 00:34:38,375
-In person?
-Right.

761
00:34:38,458 --> 00:34:40,250
The right says that
all the time--

762
00:34:40,333 --> 00:34:43,375
You think people
on the right are rooting for
more school shootings?

763
00:34:43,458 --> 00:34:45,250
-I see it all the time,
and so you do.
-Wow, I have never--

764
00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:49,417
You spend all this time
on fake news CNN,
and nobody watches you.

765
00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,500
-Oh, man...
-And I'm like,
you're wasting your time.

766
00:34:51,583 --> 00:34:53,083
Man-- Okay, true or false?

767
00:34:53,166 --> 00:34:55,083
Lessig:
You know, you look at
the partisan spin

768
00:34:55,166 --> 00:34:56,333
of cable television--

769
00:34:56,417 --> 00:34:58,959
Fox News and MSNBC
and CNN.

770
00:34:59,041 --> 00:35:02,000
Up until 2001,
they're basically the same.

771
00:35:02,083 --> 00:35:04,667
And then beginning
in 2002 or 2003,

772
00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:06,625
they start splitting
dramatically,

773
00:35:06,709 --> 00:35:08,917
so that they are
deeply partisan.

774
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,417
And that bleeds into Congress.

775
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,166
You know,
you want to rally your base
against the other side.

776
00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:17,041
You've gotta make sure
that the other side is devil,

777
00:35:17,125 --> 00:35:19,250
and if you don't call
the other side the devil,

778
00:35:19,333 --> 00:35:21,000
then they're not gonna be
interested in supporting you.

779
00:35:21,083 --> 00:35:23,625
What you see from
the radical left today

780
00:35:23,709 --> 00:35:26,875
is an attack on the democracy
of our country itself.

781
00:35:26,959 --> 00:35:31,208
The radical left just
wants to de-platform,
demonize, destroy--

782
00:35:31,291 --> 00:35:34,458
We have Democrats who have
no interest in legislating.

783
00:35:34,542 --> 00:35:37,792
It is all about continuing
on the next witch hunt

784
00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:39,250
with a new broomstick.

785
00:35:39,333 --> 00:35:40,625
I don't think of
a television clip

786
00:35:40,709 --> 00:35:42,417
about how it's going
to play on TV.

787
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,125
I think about a clip
that's on Twitter or YouTube,

788
00:35:45,208 --> 00:35:48,125
and how do you create
an exciting or viral moment

789
00:35:48,208 --> 00:35:49,458
that people are eager to share

790
00:35:49,542 --> 00:35:51,625
and that might offer
some new insight.

791
00:35:51,709 --> 00:35:55,208
Lessig:
On social media, everything
that increases engagement

792
00:35:55,291 --> 00:35:57,917
increases the opportunity
to sell ads.

793
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,709
And people are more engaged

794
00:35:59,792 --> 00:36:03,041
the more polarized
the environment becomes.

795
00:36:04,291 --> 00:36:06,500
And that bleeds into Congress,
too.

796
00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:11,959
If you look at
the number of bills
that it has passed

797
00:36:12,041 --> 00:36:14,458
in a cross-partisan way,

798
00:36:14,542 --> 00:36:16,208
it's gone in the 1970s

799
00:36:16,291 --> 00:36:19,500
from a very significant
cross-partisan institution

800
00:36:19,583 --> 00:36:23,166
to an institution now
that just literally cannot
do anything

801
00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:24,917
in a cross-partisan way.

802
00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:30,166
You know, compromise,
since Ronald Reagan,

803
00:36:30,250 --> 00:36:33,458
has had this framing
of weakness,

804
00:36:33,542 --> 00:36:35,458
or duplicity.

805
00:36:35,542 --> 00:36:37,500
So, if you compromise,

806
00:36:37,583 --> 00:36:41,166
as a member of Congress,
it's like you're lying
to your base.

807
00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:45,959
And that's the dynamic
which Newt Gingrich
encouraged.

808
00:36:46,041 --> 00:36:48,625
He knows that the way
you raise money

809
00:36:48,709 --> 00:36:52,375
is to trigger the hatred
of the other side
in your favor.

810
00:36:52,458 --> 00:36:56,333
Politics of hate is the most
productive technique

811
00:36:56,417 --> 00:36:58,041
for fundraising we have.

812
00:36:58,125 --> 00:37:01,375
I am sickened by
how unpatriotically

813
00:37:01,458 --> 00:37:04,500
they undermine
the Constitution
of the United States.

814
00:37:05,375 --> 00:37:07,208
Pelosi:
We are here today

815
00:37:07,291 --> 00:37:10,375
because the Republicans
in the House are paralyzed

816
00:37:10,458 --> 00:37:12,500
with hatred of
President Clinton.

817
00:37:12,583 --> 00:37:15,709
And until the Republicans
free themselves of this hatred,

818
00:37:15,792 --> 00:37:17,583
our country will suffer.

819
00:37:17,667 --> 00:37:20,458
But of course,
an institution like Congress

820
00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:25,250
is supposed to find
a common ground for
the nation as a whole.

821
00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:29,166
And if you're not willing
to find a solution that
could represent America,

822
00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:32,583
then you're not
doing your work
as a representative.

823
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:35,917
And if we get nothing done,
I tell you the status quo

824
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,542
will really love that,

825
00:37:37,625 --> 00:37:40,667
because they benefit
from nothing getting done.

826
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,333
We're kind of slumming it here,
going to Longworth, you know.

827
00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:54,542
The senior members
are in Rayburn.

828
00:37:54,625 --> 00:37:56,166
Matt's still stuck over here,

829
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:58,792
but with the kind of
TV time he gets,

830
00:37:58,875 --> 00:38:01,834
he'll have an office
in the Capitol soon.

831
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:10,875
Gaetz:
I've seen the way you've been
an independent member here.

832
00:38:10,959 --> 00:38:12,417
I'm starting to get a sense that

833
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,792
when you don't always adhere
to kind of the establishment,

834
00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:17,959
leadership viewpoint on things

835
00:38:18,041 --> 00:38:20,166
that you see an impact
in your fundraising.

836
00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:22,417
I raised about a couple
hundred thousand dollars

837
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,625
here in Washington, DC,
in my first term,

838
00:38:24,709 --> 00:38:28,125
but after they found out
I wasn't here to go along
to get along,

839
00:38:28,208 --> 00:38:30,125
it went almost to zero.

840
00:38:30,208 --> 00:38:32,583
In fact, there was
a six-month period

841
00:38:32,667 --> 00:38:36,333
where they ranked me
number 437 in the House
for fundraising.

842
00:38:36,417 --> 00:38:38,208
Gaetz:
I thought there were
only 435 members.

843
00:38:38,291 --> 00:38:40,500
There are only 435
voting members,

844
00:38:40,583 --> 00:38:42,125
but Guam and Puerto Rico,

845
00:38:42,208 --> 00:38:44,458
-their delegates
raised more money.
-They don't have a vote!

846
00:38:44,542 --> 00:38:46,709
They don't have a vote,
and they raised more money

847
00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:48,667
than me in that
six-month period.

848
00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:51,291
But what have you got there?
Like, is this your
fundraising plan?

849
00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:53,333
-Your campaign?
-This meeting I recently had,

850
00:38:53,417 --> 00:38:54,583
I somewhat resented it,

851
00:38:54,667 --> 00:38:56,542
I meet with these guys,
and they say, "Gaetz,

852
00:38:56,625 --> 00:38:59,333
"you know, you're on TV,
people know who you are
in your state,

853
00:38:59,417 --> 00:39:01,417
"and we really think
you can run for higher office,

854
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:02,834
but you don't
raise enough money."

855
00:39:02,917 --> 00:39:05,959
And so, they write me this plan,
and it's just, like,

856
00:39:06,041 --> 00:39:09,041
it's basically how to
whore yourself out for money.

857
00:39:09,125 --> 00:39:11,500
And when I say, like,
"Who's, who's gonna do this?"

858
00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:14,166
Like, "Who wants to
give me $100,000?"

859
00:39:14,250 --> 00:39:15,625
They basically say,
"Well, what--"

860
00:39:15,709 --> 00:39:17,875
The next question is,
"What committees are you on?"

861
00:39:17,959 --> 00:39:20,458
How can you use
your Congressional pin

862
00:39:20,542 --> 00:39:23,542
to go and, and help a lobbyist

863
00:39:23,625 --> 00:39:25,166
as your primary objective.

864
00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:29,291
It's demoralizing,
and folks like AOC,
Bernie Sanders,

865
00:39:29,375 --> 00:39:31,792
have proven that
you don't need that.

866
00:39:33,375 --> 00:39:35,166
Massie:
This is my Congressional pin,

867
00:39:35,250 --> 00:39:38,750
and you'll see a lot of people
around here wearing them.

868
00:39:38,834 --> 00:39:41,917
I started to call this pin
"Precious."

869
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,083
If you've ever seen
"Lord of the Rings"
or "The Hobbit"...

870
00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:47,291
My Precious...

871
00:39:47,458 --> 00:39:49,041
"Precious"?

872
00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:51,375
Massie:
And the reason
I call it Precious is,

873
00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:53,375
it affects how you think.

874
00:39:53,458 --> 00:39:55,709
You can come here
as a hobbit,

875
00:39:55,792 --> 00:39:57,500
and put this thing on,

876
00:39:57,583 --> 00:40:00,375
and become Gollum
in very short order.

877
00:40:00,458 --> 00:40:04,291
My... Precious!

878
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,250
Massie:
Just like Precious
made the hobbit invisible,

879
00:40:07,333 --> 00:40:09,375
you walk past
the metal detectors here.

880
00:40:09,458 --> 00:40:13,000
You don't go through them,
you walk around them
if you wear this.

881
00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:15,417
The police do what you
tell them to do,

882
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:16,959
if you're wearing Precious.

883
00:40:17,041 --> 00:40:20,000
The tourists figure out
what Precious is.

884
00:40:20,083 --> 00:40:21,417
And if you're wearing
Precious,

885
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,750
they know that you
must be precious.

886
00:40:23,834 --> 00:40:26,917
And so, because people
behave differently around you,

887
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,500
it gives you
a feeling of power.

888
00:40:29,583 --> 00:40:31,917
An uncomfortable feeling
for me.

889
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,500
And so, I try not to wear it
any more than I have to,

890
00:40:35,583 --> 00:40:38,917
because I think eventually
it will turn me from a hobbit

891
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,458
into a Gollum,
and I see that happen up here.

892
00:40:50,333 --> 00:40:52,458
So, here's two
briefing sheets.

893
00:40:52,542 --> 00:40:55,333
This morning,
it was reported that

894
00:40:55,417 --> 00:40:58,917
Iran shot down
one of our drones.

895
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,417
-There's an in-depth Fox News
article in there--
-Call Charlie.

896
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:02,583
Just call Charlie.

897
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:05,333
Hey, man. It's Luke.

898
00:41:05,583 --> 00:41:07,125
Um, I got the boss here.

899
00:41:07,208 --> 00:41:08,792
Let me put you on speaker
for this part.

900
00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,625
-Charlie.
-Charlie Truxal (on phone):
Yes, sir.

901
00:41:10,709 --> 00:41:13,291
-Tell me what you know.
- It's confirmed that
one of our drones

902
00:41:13,375 --> 00:41:16,166
was shot down over the evening
by the Iranians.

903
00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:18,834
This one was a high-altitude
flying MQ-9

904
00:41:18,917 --> 00:41:20,709
from what I am tracking,
one of the threads.

905
00:41:20,792 --> 00:41:24,333
And they were able to hit it
effectively at high altitude,

906
00:41:24,417 --> 00:41:26,458
-which is unbelievable.
-Gaetz: An MQ-9?

907
00:41:26,542 --> 00:41:28,125
Truxal:
...I think ever done that
once before.

908
00:41:28,208 --> 00:41:30,667
Gaetz:
Jesus. All right,
thanks, Charlie.

909
00:41:30,750 --> 00:41:32,208
Jake Tapper:
The Pentagon is deploying

910
00:41:32,291 --> 00:41:33,500
an additional thousand troops

911
00:41:33,583 --> 00:41:35,792
to the region as
a deterrent against

912
00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:37,542
what the Trump
administration calls,

913
00:41:37,625 --> 00:41:39,375
"increased Iranian
aggressions."

914
00:41:39,458 --> 00:41:41,709
Reporter:
Do you believe right now
that you have the authority

915
00:41:41,792 --> 00:41:43,583
to strike Iran
without Congress?

916
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,250
Uh, I do like keeping them
abreast,

917
00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:47,125
but I don't have
to do it legally.

918
00:41:47,208 --> 00:41:49,083
I have not seen intel

919
00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:53,458
that would justify utilizing
the 2001 Global War on Terror

920
00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:56,709
authorization to use
military force against Iran.

921
00:41:56,792 --> 00:41:59,291
So I'm proud to work
with Ro Khanna

922
00:41:59,375 --> 00:42:01,500
and other folks
on the political left

923
00:42:01,583 --> 00:42:03,709
to try to achieve
a bipartisan consensus,

924
00:42:03,792 --> 00:42:07,166
because if my constituents
have to have the courage
and bravery

925
00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,125
to go and fight these wars
and die in these wars,

926
00:42:10,208 --> 00:42:11,667
then politicians in Washington

927
00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:13,500
need the courage
to actually vote on them,

928
00:42:13,583 --> 00:42:16,750
and decide what's worthy
of spilling American blood,

929
00:42:16,834 --> 00:42:18,625
and what isn't.

930
00:42:18,709 --> 00:42:20,667
Khanna:
We're at risk of
a serious escalation

931
00:42:20,750 --> 00:42:22,500
that could spiral
out of control.

932
00:42:22,583 --> 00:42:24,083
Congress has to be the check,

933
00:42:24,166 --> 00:42:26,709
and that's why I've been
working with Matt Gaetz

934
00:42:26,792 --> 00:42:29,875
to have an amendment
that we're going to
introduce tomorrow.

935
00:42:29,959 --> 00:42:32,166
And the amendment is going
to make it very clear.

936
00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:35,959
The President can't take
any action in declaring
war in Iran,

937
00:42:36,041 --> 00:42:38,333
uh, without Congressional
authorization,

938
00:42:38,417 --> 00:42:41,125
and we will defund
any such activity.

939
00:42:46,625 --> 00:42:48,208
-Gaetz: Jillian?
-Jillian Lane Wyant:
I'm here.

940
00:42:48,291 --> 00:42:50,709
-I knew this would happen.
-Wyant: I had this--

941
00:42:50,792 --> 00:42:53,333
I asked you, I said three times,
I said, "We will get down here,

942
00:42:53,417 --> 00:42:56,083
and we will not have
a person here."

943
00:42:56,166 --> 00:42:58,000
I specifically
want to reference

944
00:42:58,083 --> 00:43:00,750
information that
we've received
in a classified setting,

945
00:43:00,834 --> 00:43:02,125
and so for us to discuss that,

946
00:43:02,208 --> 00:43:04,500
there are rooms tucked
throughout the basements

947
00:43:04,583 --> 00:43:06,583
and tunnels at
the Capitol complex

948
00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:09,917
that are available for a more
secure discussion or brief.

949
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,125
Sir, are all your, uh,
electronics--

950
00:43:12,208 --> 00:43:14,667
You can take the key
of one of those.

951
00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:17,250
-No Apple watch, Ro?
-I mean...

952
00:43:17,333 --> 00:43:20,291
-What kind of Silicon Valley
Congressman are you?
-You know.

953
00:43:24,583 --> 00:43:26,667
Gaetz:
So have you done this with
a lot of your legislation?

954
00:43:26,750 --> 00:43:28,792
-File it directly in the Hopper?
-Khanna: No.

955
00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:32,583
We are going to submit
our joint amendment
to the Hopper,

956
00:43:32,667 --> 00:43:36,166
which is, uh, how you submit
an amendment or a bill

957
00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:38,000
to the House floor
to get it for a vote.

958
00:43:38,083 --> 00:43:40,291
We're coming together
with this unique coalition

959
00:43:40,375 --> 00:43:43,333
in constitutional prerogative
to prevent war.

960
00:43:43,417 --> 00:43:48,291
So, I, I actually think this
is a great example of
Congress actually working.

961
00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:49,792
Wyant:
Trump just came out
with a statement

962
00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:51,041
while you guys were
talking about Iran.

963
00:43:51,125 --> 00:43:52,959
-Oh. What'd he say?
-"Any attack by Iran

964
00:43:53,041 --> 00:43:54,250
"on anything American

965
00:43:54,333 --> 00:43:56,458
"will be met with great
and overwhelming force.

966
00:43:56,542 --> 00:43:59,625
"In some areas,
overwhelming will mean
obliteration.

967
00:43:59,709 --> 00:44:01,875
No more John Kerry
and Obama."

968
00:44:01,959 --> 00:44:04,208
We better hurry.

969
00:44:04,291 --> 00:44:06,083
Neil Cavuto:
I was just checking.
Are pigs flying?

970
00:44:06,166 --> 00:44:08,041
Because Democrats
and Republicans

971
00:44:08,125 --> 00:44:10,125
have apparently found
something to agree on.

972
00:44:10,208 --> 00:44:11,750
Or at least,
these next two gentlemen have.

973
00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:13,291
Recent reporting
that was in "The Hill,"

974
00:44:13,375 --> 00:44:15,625
I believe, showed that by
a margin of two-to-one,

975
00:44:15,709 --> 00:44:20,333
Americans favored diplomacy
and negotiation over war.

976
00:44:20,417 --> 00:44:23,667
Newscaster:
President Trump says the
military was cocked and loaded

977
00:44:23,750 --> 00:44:26,125
to carry out air strikes
against Iran overnight

978
00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:28,000
when he suddenly
decided not to do it.

979
00:44:28,083 --> 00:44:29,375
Trump:
I'm not looking for war,

980
00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:31,375
and if there is,
it'll be obliteration

981
00:44:31,458 --> 00:44:33,041
like you've never seen before.

982
00:44:33,125 --> 00:44:35,542
Newscaster:
Tonight, senior administration
officials say

983
00:44:35,625 --> 00:44:38,083
all options are still
on the table.

984
00:44:38,166 --> 00:44:41,375
Buck:
As long as the President
is engaging in wars,

985
00:44:41,458 --> 00:44:42,834
we don't have to vote
on a war.

986
00:44:42,917 --> 00:44:44,542
And if some
American soldier,

987
00:44:44,625 --> 00:44:46,500
a Marine airman dies,

988
00:44:46,583 --> 00:44:50,417
we don't have to accept
the blame for that.
We can point a finger.

989
00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,583
So, all the tough decisions
are pushed off

990
00:44:52,667 --> 00:44:57,583
to the executive branch,
and power has shifted
as a result.

991
00:44:57,667 --> 00:44:59,583
Massie:
The military
industrial complex,

992
00:44:59,667 --> 00:45:02,667
they got a lot
of money to make
when we're in war.

993
00:45:02,750 --> 00:45:05,375
They're up here donating
to Congressmen.

994
00:45:05,458 --> 00:45:07,792
And so that's a force
that keeps war going.

995
00:45:08,750 --> 00:45:12,291
And unfortunately,
I serve with some real cowards.

996
00:45:12,375 --> 00:45:15,125
They would rather not ever
have to take that vote.

997
00:45:15,208 --> 00:45:16,583
(applause)

998
00:45:16,667 --> 00:45:18,375
Khanna:
The biggest thing I found
in Washington

999
00:45:18,458 --> 00:45:20,208
is just this total
risk aversion.

1000
00:45:20,291 --> 00:45:23,375
I mean, people, they don't
want to rock the boat.

1001
00:45:23,458 --> 00:45:25,583
And people who are in power

1002
00:45:25,667 --> 00:45:28,208
have a stake in
preserving that power.

1003
00:45:28,291 --> 00:45:29,792
(explosion)

1004
00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:36,667
(lawnmower puttering)

1005
00:45:41,458 --> 00:45:43,375
Gaetz:
How many media
appearances today,

1006
00:45:43,458 --> 00:45:45,000
including Facebook Lives?

1007
00:45:45,083 --> 00:45:47,917
-Four? Five?
-Wyant: Uh, I think four.

1008
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,667
Gaetz:
Charles, it's like we're
going through "Groundhog Day"

1009
00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:52,542
each and every week in the
House Judiciary Committee.

1010
00:45:52,625 --> 00:45:55,375
We are going over the same facts
that were in the Mueller Report.

1011
00:45:55,458 --> 00:45:58,250
And it doesn't seem to be
moving, uh, the fact that

1012
00:45:58,333 --> 00:46:01,875
sixty percent of the country
doesn't want to see impeachment
go forward.

1013
00:46:01,959 --> 00:46:04,750
There was no collusion
with Russia.

1014
00:46:04,834 --> 00:46:07,250
There was no obstruction,

1015
00:46:07,333 --> 00:46:09,208
and none whatsoever.

1016
00:46:09,291 --> 00:46:11,041
Newscaster:
On the collusion
conspiracy issue,

1017
00:46:11,125 --> 00:46:12,625
the President is right.

1018
00:46:12,709 --> 00:46:14,083
The Mueller Report
does not establish

1019
00:46:14,166 --> 00:46:15,709
any such wrongdoing.

1020
00:46:15,792 --> 00:46:17,458
But on the issue of obstruction,

1021
00:46:17,542 --> 00:46:19,500
Mueller does not agree
with the President.

1022
00:46:19,583 --> 00:46:21,959
Jerry Nadler:
Responsibility
now falls to Congress

1023
00:46:22,041 --> 00:46:24,583
to hold the President
accountable for his actions.

1024
00:46:24,667 --> 00:46:28,083
This has nothing to do with
volume one or volume two
of the Mueller Report.

1025
00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:30,000
(indistinct arguing)

1026
00:46:30,083 --> 00:46:31,917
Man:
They don't know anything
about the Mueller Report!

1027
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,375
Nadler:
Gentleman will suspend.

1028
00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:35,375
Gaetz:
Chairman Nadler
and the Democrats

1029
00:46:35,458 --> 00:46:36,458
on the Judiciary Committee

1030
00:46:36,542 --> 00:46:38,375
are dying to impeach
Donald Trump.

1031
00:46:38,458 --> 00:46:40,625
They would have impeached
him yesterday if they could.

1032
00:46:40,709 --> 00:46:42,542
But Nancy Pelosi knows

1033
00:46:42,625 --> 00:46:44,875
that impeachment is like
poisonous candy.

1034
00:46:44,959 --> 00:46:47,083
You know,
you can look at the candy,
you can want the candy,

1035
00:46:47,166 --> 00:46:49,166
but if you eat the candy,
you're gonna die.

1036
00:46:49,250 --> 00:46:51,959
Newscaster:
She doesn't want Democrats
in swing districts

1037
00:46:52,041 --> 00:46:54,417
having to take a tough vote
on impeachment.

1038
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,166
That's a really ugly vote.

1039
00:46:56,250 --> 00:46:58,417
Gaetz:
It's my view that
the Mueller Report

1040
00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:00,875
was the dispositive word
on collusion,

1041
00:47:00,959 --> 00:47:02,959
and that we all ought
to move on as a country.

1042
00:47:03,041 --> 00:47:05,458
But if Democrats really want
to probe these issues,

1043
00:47:05,542 --> 00:47:06,959
why are we eating
around the edges?

1044
00:47:07,041 --> 00:47:08,792
Why don't they just
call Robert Mueller?

1045
00:47:08,875 --> 00:47:11,458
(news theme playing)

1046
00:47:11,542 --> 00:47:13,250
Newscaster:
The former special counsel
is about to make

1047
00:47:13,333 --> 00:47:16,291
back-to-back appearances
before the House Judiciary

1048
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:17,917
and Intelligence committees.

1049
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,667
Gaetz:
I don't think I slept
very much last night.

1050
00:47:20,750 --> 00:47:22,959
This is kind of our version
of the Super Bowl.

1051
00:47:23,041 --> 00:47:25,458
Getting ready for
an opportunity to

1052
00:47:25,542 --> 00:47:28,583
display the work of our office
over the last two years

1053
00:47:28,667 --> 00:47:32,083
in a very condensed, uh,
high-intensity setting.

1054
00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:34,041
All right.

1055
00:47:35,083 --> 00:47:36,709
Off to see the wizard.

1056
00:47:36,792 --> 00:47:38,250
For the last couple weekends,

1057
00:47:38,333 --> 00:47:40,166
I have, uh,
spent a lot of time
on the phone

1058
00:47:40,250 --> 00:47:43,250
with some of my colleagues:
Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe.

1059
00:47:43,333 --> 00:47:45,125
We have had a number
of mock sessions

1060
00:47:45,208 --> 00:47:47,667
where I'll pretend
it's my five minutes,

1061
00:47:47,750 --> 00:47:50,834
and ask one of my colleagues,
as if they're Mueller,
the questions I have,

1062
00:47:50,917 --> 00:47:53,667
and then they'll turn around
and ask those questions of me.

1063
00:47:53,750 --> 00:47:55,959
Who's the one member of
the Judiciary Committee

1064
00:47:56,041 --> 00:47:58,500
who has refused to show up
to a single prep session,

1065
00:47:58,583 --> 00:48:01,000
a single practice,
a single mood court?

1066
00:48:01,083 --> 00:48:03,208
Ken Buck. Ken Buck.
A gamer.

1067
00:48:03,291 --> 00:48:05,458
Doesn't wanna leave
any on the practice field.

1068
00:48:08,166 --> 00:48:10,875
Christopher Jaarda:
Um, what we're doing is
we're laying forward that

1069
00:48:10,959 --> 00:48:14,083
there are ten separate
fact patterns covered
in the Mueller Report.

1070
00:48:14,166 --> 00:48:15,500
And in many of those,

1071
00:48:15,583 --> 00:48:18,208
Mueller could have reached
a prosecutorial decision,

1072
00:48:18,291 --> 00:48:20,709
which he did not do,
even though the regulations

1073
00:48:20,792 --> 00:48:24,041
require him to make
that decision.

1074
00:48:24,125 --> 00:48:26,458
Newscaster:
This is really a critical
test for Democrats,

1075
00:48:26,542 --> 00:48:28,375
who are looking to impeach
this President.

1076
00:48:28,458 --> 00:48:31,625
This may be their
final moment to lay out
for the American public

1077
00:48:31,709 --> 00:48:34,583
why that is something, uh,
that should be on the table.

1078
00:48:34,667 --> 00:48:36,417
Newscaster 2:
Now, when it
comes to Republicans,

1079
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:38,792
they are going to focus
on the origins

1080
00:48:38,875 --> 00:48:40,375
of the Mueller investigation.

1081
00:48:40,458 --> 00:48:42,583
I think there were
a lot of facts, uh,

1082
00:48:42,667 --> 00:48:46,709
regarding the interaction
of people who didn't like
the President and Russians...

1083
00:48:46,792 --> 00:48:48,333
-that weren't fully developed.
-Reporter: Who do you mean,
specifically?

1084
00:48:48,417 --> 00:48:50,834
Well, uh, you'll,
you'll see in just a moment.

1085
00:48:54,500 --> 00:48:56,750
Do you have any basis
as you sit here today

1086
00:48:56,834 --> 00:48:58,542
to believe that Steele
was lying?

1087
00:48:58,625 --> 00:49:00,750
As I said before
and I'll say again,

1088
00:49:00,834 --> 00:49:03,417
it's not my purview.
Others are investigating
what you--

1089
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,250
Gaetz (on TV):
So it's not your purview
to look into

1090
00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:06,625
whether or not Steele's lying.

1091
00:49:06,709 --> 00:49:08,417
It's not your purview to
look into whether or not

1092
00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:10,417
anti-Trump Russians
are lying to Steele.

1093
00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:12,542
And here's what
I'm kind of noticing,
Director Mueller.

1094
00:49:12,625 --> 00:49:15,542
When people associated
with Trump lied,
you threw the book at 'em.

1095
00:49:15,625 --> 00:49:17,750
When Christopher Steele lied,
nothing.

1096
00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:21,208
Maybe the reason why
there are this discrepancies
in what you focused on,

1097
00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:23,291
because the team
is so biased...

1098
00:49:23,375 --> 00:49:25,417
-Man: Time of the gentlemen
has expired.
-... pledge to stop Trump.

1099
00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:27,667
Man:
Mr. Jeffries of New York
is recognized.

1100
00:49:27,750 --> 00:49:29,333
I guess he didn't
get to the closing.

1101
00:49:29,417 --> 00:49:31,834
- All right. I'm gonna
start pulling it.
-Yeah.

1102
00:49:31,917 --> 00:49:34,625
All right, uh,
we're starting to pull,

1103
00:49:34,709 --> 00:49:36,166
go on critical mention,

1104
00:49:36,250 --> 00:49:38,917
try to search for that
Florida keyword that I found,

1105
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,625
and then you should be able
to copy and paste

1106
00:49:41,709 --> 00:49:44,166
-the transcript portion.
-Is it up here?

1107
00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:45,709
Wyant:
This is a huge moment.

1108
00:49:45,792 --> 00:49:47,166
Now I don't just think
in Congress, though.

1109
00:49:47,250 --> 00:49:48,625
I think this is
in the country, as well.

1110
00:49:48,709 --> 00:49:51,709
Because this kind of can dictate
where we go next.

1111
00:49:51,792 --> 00:49:56,083
Buck:
Was there sufficient evidence
to convict President Trump,

1112
00:49:56,166 --> 00:49:59,291
or anyone else,
with obstruction of justice?

1113
00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:00,875
In Office of Legal Counsel,

1114
00:50:00,959 --> 00:50:03,792
indicates that we cannot
indict a sitting President.

1115
00:50:03,875 --> 00:50:06,291
Could you charge the President
with a crime

1116
00:50:06,375 --> 00:50:08,333
-after he left office?
-Yes.

1117
00:50:08,417 --> 00:50:10,000
You believe that he committed--

1118
00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:11,667
You could charge the President
of the United States

1119
00:50:11,750 --> 00:50:15,041
-with obstruction of justice
after he left office.
-Yes.

1120
00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:20,208
Buck:
The liberals will use
the answers

1121
00:50:20,291 --> 00:50:22,041
that Mueller gave
on his report,

1122
00:50:22,125 --> 00:50:24,834
and they will allege that
the President committed
obstruction,

1123
00:50:24,917 --> 00:50:26,417
and it's an impeachable
offense.

1124
00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:30,166
The Republicans will talk
about how unfair this
investigation was,

1125
00:50:30,250 --> 00:50:33,125
that the people that were
involved in the investigation
were biased.

1126
00:50:33,208 --> 00:50:35,542
So, I think both sides
have takeaways,

1127
00:50:35,625 --> 00:50:38,625
and depending on which
news organization you listen to,

1128
00:50:38,709 --> 00:50:41,000
you're gonna hear,
uh, that takeaway.

1129
00:50:41,083 --> 00:50:43,625
Ritika Robertson:
I think the people that were
pro-impeachment before

1130
00:50:43,709 --> 00:50:46,458
are still pro-impeachment.
The people that were
anti-impeachment

1131
00:50:46,542 --> 00:50:49,458
are still anti-impeachment.
And most of the country
just doesn't care.

1132
00:50:49,542 --> 00:50:51,583
Newscaster:
This is absolutely not the day

1133
00:50:51,667 --> 00:50:54,333
the Democrats
had wanted it to be.
I agree...

1134
00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:57,166
The Democrats in
the committee on the dais

1135
00:50:57,250 --> 00:51:00,834
looked like they had been held
at a funeral for too long.

1136
00:51:00,917 --> 00:51:03,458
Newscaster:
The President, by the way,
we know is watching this.

1137
00:51:03,542 --> 00:51:05,709
He's been doing so, we're told,
from inside the residence.

1138
00:51:05,792 --> 00:51:08,000
not in the West Wing
of the White House here.

1139
00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:11,208
(voice over phone)

1140
00:51:11,291 --> 00:51:14,542
Hey, Mr. President.
It's your favorite Congressman,
Matt Gaetz.

1141
00:51:14,625 --> 00:51:17,792
Great day to be an American.
Give me a ring at your
convenience.

1142
00:51:18,625 --> 00:51:20,583
I'll call him at the office.

1143
00:51:27,709 --> 00:51:29,166
Mr. President.

1144
00:51:30,542 --> 00:51:32,709
I think we won the day, sir.

1145
00:51:33,166 --> 00:51:35,125
(Trump speaking)

1146
00:51:44,333 --> 00:51:45,875
No, I, I--

1147
00:51:46,667 --> 00:51:47,875
Yeah, he is.

1148
00:51:48,166 --> 00:51:49,792
No, I think we--

1149
00:51:53,667 --> 00:51:56,750
Well, I think the--
the biggest mistake
was Nadler.

1150
00:51:56,834 --> 00:51:58,667
Bringing this guy in.
I mean, this was--

1151
00:51:58,750 --> 00:52:00,166
this was a train wreck for them.

1152
00:52:00,250 --> 00:52:03,166
I will guarantee you
that when, uh,
they are polling,

1153
00:52:03,250 --> 00:52:05,083
you know, ten days,
two weeks from now,

1154
00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:07,417
that the Democrats will have
gained zero momentum

1155
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,041
in their push for impeachment.

1156
00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:10,583
(Trump speaking)

1157
00:52:21,709 --> 00:52:24,875
We'll tell 'em, sir.
Well, hey, thank you.

1158
00:52:24,959 --> 00:52:26,583
Oh, Melania said I was handsome.

1159
00:52:26,667 --> 00:52:29,000
You keep telling me that,
but she never confirms it.

1160
00:52:29,083 --> 00:52:31,500
(Trump speaking)

1161
00:52:32,333 --> 00:52:33,709
Take care.

1162
00:52:37,375 --> 00:52:39,083
He's very happy.

1163
00:52:41,959 --> 00:52:47,500
♪

1164
00:52:52,083 --> 00:52:54,792
Massie:
I haven't read the whole
Mueller Report.

1165
00:52:54,875 --> 00:52:57,333
I've probably only read
about 20 percent of it,

1166
00:52:57,417 --> 00:53:01,917
but I read enough
of it to decide that
it didn't matter.

1167
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,792
It's a weapon of
mass distraction.

1168
00:53:03,875 --> 00:53:08,000
I don't think this is gonna
change anything here, really.

1169
00:53:08,083 --> 00:53:09,709
We have wasted a lot of time,

1170
00:53:09,792 --> 00:53:12,625
but that's what Congress
sort of does on its own--

1171
00:53:12,709 --> 00:53:14,417
it wastes time.

1172
00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:16,750
♪

1173
00:53:20,583 --> 00:53:23,291
We're at a very
important location

1174
00:53:23,375 --> 00:53:25,500
that defines the edge of where,

1175
00:53:25,583 --> 00:53:27,625
uh, Congress does
official business,

1176
00:53:27,709 --> 00:53:31,041
and where Congress switches
into fundraising mode.

1177
00:53:31,125 --> 00:53:35,125
I can't ask anybody for money
on federal property,

1178
00:53:35,208 --> 00:53:37,667
so, when you want
a new committee assignment,

1179
00:53:37,750 --> 00:53:40,583
let's say you're tired of being
stuck on the Ethics Committee,

1180
00:53:40,667 --> 00:53:42,792
and you want on the powerful
Ways and Means Committee,

1181
00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:45,667
the first thing the Speaker
is gonna tell you is--

1182
00:53:45,750 --> 00:53:48,125
They're gonna get out
the fundraising numbers
and say,

1183
00:53:48,208 --> 00:53:50,834
"You're not doing enough work
across the street."

1184
00:53:50,917 --> 00:53:54,208
So when you hear
that code sentence,
we all know what it means.

1185
00:53:54,291 --> 00:53:57,917
Come down here,
cross the street,
get a list of rich people,

1186
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,583
and start begging for money.

1187
00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:01,709
Not for yourself,
not for your own reelection,

1188
00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:03,500
but for the party.

1189
00:54:05,125 --> 00:54:07,417
Gaetz:
We just concluded
our monthly meeting.

1190
00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:09,959
I got the, uh, somewhat
unfortunate news that

1191
00:54:10,041 --> 00:54:16,083
I have $124,500 left
that I owe to pay
the party for my dues.

1192
00:54:16,166 --> 00:54:17,750
And a lot of times
they're telling you,

1193
00:54:17,834 --> 00:54:19,375
"Hey, if you're on
this committee,

1194
00:54:19,458 --> 00:54:21,458
these are the lobbying groups
that you need to go see."

1195
00:54:21,542 --> 00:54:23,417
Or, "These are
the lobbying firms
that are most likely

1196
00:54:23,500 --> 00:54:25,083
to give to your campaigns."

1197
00:54:25,166 --> 00:54:28,375
Taking just a candid look at
where you've told me we are,

1198
00:54:28,458 --> 00:54:31,458
-we will be out of money
in a few months.
-Wyant: Yeah.

1199
00:54:31,542 --> 00:54:33,333
-We'll be, we'll be broke.
-Yes.

1200
00:54:33,417 --> 00:54:36,792
If you make me do
the typical Washington thing

1201
00:54:36,875 --> 00:54:38,750
where I have to go and sit
with these lobbyists...

1202
00:54:38,834 --> 00:54:40,959
-Yeah.
-...and PAC fundraisers,
I will quit.

1203
00:54:41,041 --> 00:54:43,083
I really think we need
to hire a fundraiser.

1204
00:54:43,166 --> 00:54:45,625
Is there any projection
in which,

1205
00:54:45,709 --> 00:54:47,375
if we grow that renewable

1206
00:54:47,458 --> 00:54:49,375
-small dollar donor base,
-Yeah.

1207
00:54:49,458 --> 00:54:52,250
-people who give me
$50 from, you know--
-Well, that's the whole point.

1208
00:54:52,333 --> 00:54:54,917
The whole point is to
one day not need to hire
a fundraiser at all.

1209
00:54:55,041 --> 00:54:56,792
It really--
The whole point
is to get there,

1210
00:54:56,875 --> 00:54:58,959
but it just takes time,
because you need to get
that database.

1211
00:54:59,041 --> 00:55:02,458
And at our current
operational spend, we'll
be broke in a few months.

1212
00:55:02,542 --> 00:55:04,458
-Right. Exactly.
-Great talk.

1213
00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:05,834
Yeah, exactly.

1214
00:55:10,959 --> 00:55:14,125
Well, here we are,
across the street
at the NRCC.

1215
00:55:14,208 --> 00:55:16,291
I'm sort of persona non grata
in this building.

1216
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

1217
00:55:19,208 --> 00:55:20,834
for the past six years.

1218
00:55:21,542 --> 00:55:22,959
If you go in there,

1219
00:55:23,041 --> 00:55:25,333
you're gonna see Congressmen
sitting in cubicles

1220
00:55:25,417 --> 00:55:29,542
going down lists of people
who've donated to Republicans
before.

1221
00:55:29,625 --> 00:55:31,959
In many cases,
cold calling them.

1222
00:55:32,041 --> 00:55:34,959
Basically glorified
telemarketers,

1223
00:55:35,041 --> 00:55:39,542
and the same exact thing
goes on at the D-triple-C

1224
00:55:39,625 --> 00:55:42,667
as goes on here at the NRCC.

1225
00:55:42,750 --> 00:55:45,333
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I crossed the street myself.

1226
00:55:45,417 --> 00:55:48,000
Like, my campaign
doesn't run on fairy dust.

1227
00:55:48,083 --> 00:55:51,000
So, even though I don't
spend any time there,

1228
00:55:51,083 --> 00:55:53,166
there's another building
right next to us

1229
00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:56,125
where I do spend a lot of time
wining and dining.

1230
00:55:56,208 --> 00:55:58,583
The difference is,
I don't pay the extortion

1231
00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:00,750
that my party asks of me.

1232
00:56:02,959 --> 00:56:05,792
There's somebody doing
their work across the street.

1233
00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:08,959
His district borders mine.

1234
00:56:11,583 --> 00:56:15,291
(light guitar music playing)

1235
00:56:21,458 --> 00:56:23,208
I think the topography here

1236
00:56:23,291 --> 00:56:26,542
shaped my thinking
about government.

1237
00:56:26,625 --> 00:56:28,125
We're organized in hollers.

1238
00:56:28,208 --> 00:56:31,208
There's a holler,
there's a holler.
This is a main holler.

1239
00:56:31,291 --> 00:56:34,542
And as long as you're
minding your own business
in your holler,

1240
00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:37,667
you don't go over
in your neighbor's holler
and tell them what to do.

1241
00:56:38,208 --> 00:56:39,250
Hey!

1242
00:56:40,291 --> 00:56:41,417
Hey, cows!

1243
00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:43,125
(mooing)

1244
00:56:43,208 --> 00:56:44,917
It's not very Libertarian
of somebody

1245
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,583
to throw their trash
on my field.

1246
00:56:51,333 --> 00:56:55,458
Oh. They were having
a Budweiser here.

1247
00:56:55,542 --> 00:56:57,792
I'm definitely the greenest
member of Congress.

1248
00:56:57,875 --> 00:56:59,583
I've put that on
my Twitter profile.

1249
00:56:59,667 --> 00:57:03,458
Nobody will even challenge me
on that point.

1250
00:57:03,542 --> 00:57:06,000
Everything in my house
runs off solar power.

1251
00:57:06,083 --> 00:57:08,000
We're off the grid.

1252
00:57:08,083 --> 00:57:10,625
My whole house right now
is running off of

1253
00:57:10,709 --> 00:57:16,792
7,104 little batteries
out of a wrecked
Tesla model S.

1254
00:57:16,875 --> 00:57:19,041
I hate pollution, okay?

1255
00:57:19,125 --> 00:57:21,333
Lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide...

1256
00:57:21,417 --> 00:57:24,000
All the things that
we can prove are bad,

1257
00:57:24,083 --> 00:57:26,709
I, I'm against.

1258
00:57:26,792 --> 00:57:31,792
One of the things that
I disagree on, though,
is carbon dioxide.

1259
00:57:31,875 --> 00:57:33,834
One of the best things
that could happen

1260
00:57:33,917 --> 00:57:36,417
for the life on this farm
to flourish

1261
00:57:36,500 --> 00:57:38,542
is that CO2 goes up.

1262
00:57:38,625 --> 00:57:41,625
People forget that.
They forget that CO2
is a plant food,

1263
00:57:41,709 --> 00:57:43,625
and we're now calling it
a pollutant.

1264
00:57:43,709 --> 00:57:45,583
Interviewer:
You don't think that
climate change

1265
00:57:45,667 --> 00:57:48,709
is an existential threat
to human beings?

1266
00:57:48,792 --> 00:57:53,250
I absolutely don't think
that CO2,

1267
00:57:53,333 --> 00:57:55,959
uh, man-made
or man-produced CO2,

1268
00:57:56,041 --> 00:57:58,208
is an existential threat
to us.

1269
00:57:59,834 --> 00:58:03,834
And even if we thought CO2
was not good for the planet,

1270
00:58:03,917 --> 00:58:06,792
it's probably not
the best place
to spend your money,

1271
00:58:06,875 --> 00:58:10,250
or to spend other
people's money that
you're taxing them on.

1272
00:58:10,333 --> 00:58:12,291
Where's the cost benefit?

1273
00:58:12,375 --> 00:58:14,500
Interviewer:
What do you say to
the people who might say,

1274
00:58:14,583 --> 00:58:16,125
"Oh, well,
you're from Kentucky.

1275
00:58:16,208 --> 00:58:18,917
Are you just protecting
the coal miners?"

1276
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,291
So, it's true
I'm from Kentucky,

1277
00:58:21,375 --> 00:58:25,667
but there's not a single
operating coal mine
in my Congressional district.

1278
00:58:25,750 --> 00:58:28,083
Do I have a parochial interest

1279
00:58:28,166 --> 00:58:31,583
because of coal-fired
electricity generation?

1280
00:58:31,667 --> 00:58:33,041
Yes, I do.

1281
00:58:33,542 --> 00:58:36,166
But we look to the government
to solve every problem,

1282
00:58:36,250 --> 00:58:37,834
and I think that's wrong.

1283
00:58:37,917 --> 00:58:42,208
♪

1284
00:58:48,417 --> 00:58:50,125
Lessig:
In 2010,

1285
00:58:50,208 --> 00:58:51,917
the Koch brothers signaled

1286
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,166
that any Republican who
acknowledged climate change

1287
00:58:55,250 --> 00:58:58,166
would be taken out.
They'd be primaried.

1288
00:58:58,250 --> 00:59:01,834
And what that demonstrates
is the extraordinary power

1289
00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:05,041
of the threat value of money.

1290
00:59:08,959 --> 00:59:11,041
The iceberg effect is

1291
00:59:11,125 --> 00:59:14,333
we see a tiny bit
of the contributions
on the surface.

1292
00:59:14,417 --> 00:59:17,375
But below the water,
there's an extraordinary
amount of

1293
00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:19,291
threatened contributions

1294
00:59:19,375 --> 00:59:22,083
that have the effect
of disciplining members
of Congress,

1295
00:59:22,166 --> 00:59:25,375
and that's what happening
with climate change.

1296
00:59:25,458 --> 00:59:28,917
But whether or not
the Republicans
are more extreme,

1297
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,083
the Democrats are also
extremely sensitive,

1298
00:59:32,166 --> 00:59:33,709
and constrained,

1299
00:59:33,792 --> 00:59:36,083
by the way they
need to raise money.

1300
00:59:36,166 --> 00:59:39,417
Newscaster:
Senate Democrats have
a super majority of 60.

1301
00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:42,208
Republicans will be powerless
to stop them.

1302
00:59:42,291 --> 00:59:45,375
Lessig:
The Democrats couldn't bring
climate change legislation

1303
00:59:45,458 --> 00:59:47,250
when they had
a super majority

1304
00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:49,792
in the House and in the Senate,

1305
00:59:49,875 --> 00:59:53,625
because they knew the cost
from the carbon industries

1306
00:59:53,709 --> 00:59:57,417
jumping in and defeating
Democrats would be too great.

1307
00:59:57,500 --> 01:00:00,583
And what we need is an
opportunity for Congressmen

1308
01:00:00,667 --> 01:00:04,792
to decide what to do
on the basis of what
they think is right,

1309
01:00:04,875 --> 01:00:06,875
independent of this anxiety

1310
01:00:06,959 --> 01:00:11,583
that these tiny numbers
of very powerful funders

1311
01:00:11,667 --> 01:00:15,166
will make it so that
their decision is too costly

1312
01:00:15,250 --> 01:00:17,125
for them and their party.

1313
01:00:19,375 --> 01:00:21,125
Announcer:
Chipping away at your rights.

1314
01:00:21,208 --> 01:00:23,542
Chipping away at your freedom.

1315
01:00:23,625 --> 01:00:27,125
And now they're attacking
our Second Amendment rights.

1316
01:00:28,250 --> 01:00:30,500
Chipping away at your future.

1317
01:00:30,583 --> 01:00:32,959
But you can stop them
right now.

1318
01:00:33,041 --> 01:00:35,792
On November 2nd,
vote Ken Buck.

1319
01:00:35,875 --> 01:00:37,959
He defends our
Second Amendment rights.

1320
01:00:38,041 --> 01:00:41,834
The NRA Political Victory Fund
is responsible for the content
of this advertising.

1321
01:00:41,917 --> 01:00:44,125
Sure, I ran for
the Senate in 2010,

1322
01:00:44,208 --> 01:00:46,750
and the NRA spent a lot of money
in that campaign.

1323
01:00:46,834 --> 01:00:50,125
The truth is that
I've never received, um,

1324
01:00:50,208 --> 01:00:52,458
more than one or two percent

1325
01:00:52,542 --> 01:00:56,667
of my total campaign
contributions from, uh, the NRA.

1326
01:00:56,750 --> 01:01:00,000
I'm not influenced by anybody
in the gun area.

1327
01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:02,834
I am a firm believer
in our Second Amendment rights,

1328
01:01:02,917 --> 01:01:05,041
and that's why I vote
the way I do.

1329
01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:12,500
I was a district attorney
for 10 years,

1330
01:01:12,583 --> 01:01:14,792
and it's the best job
I've had.

1331
01:01:14,875 --> 01:01:18,208
As a district attorney,
you really get
the 30,000-foot view

1332
01:01:18,291 --> 01:01:19,875
of crime in a community,

1333
01:01:19,959 --> 01:01:22,291
and what can you do
to solve that crime,

1334
01:01:22,375 --> 01:01:24,834
and to change the way
a community looks at crime.

1335
01:01:24,917 --> 01:01:27,083
Man:
You wanna shoot bad guys,
or you wanna shoot targets, or--

1336
01:01:27,166 --> 01:01:29,041
-Buck: Bad guys.
-Chief of Staff?
What do you say?

1337
01:01:29,125 --> 01:01:30,792
-Oh.
-Woman: Do you
have any terrorists?

1338
01:01:30,875 --> 01:01:33,250
Um, do we have any Osamas left?

1339
01:01:33,333 --> 01:01:36,750
That, that guy looks great.
The third from the bottom there
looks great.

1340
01:01:38,083 --> 01:01:39,667
I think candidates,

1341
01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:42,542
elected officials,
and political parties

1342
01:01:42,625 --> 01:01:47,083
all react to
a narrative created by
special interest groups.

1343
01:01:47,166 --> 01:01:50,250
And that narrative is often
single issue.

1344
01:01:50,333 --> 01:01:52,333
And the narrative
is often extreme.

1345
01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:54,875
Woman:
The only way
we save our country

1346
01:01:54,959 --> 01:01:59,041
and our freedom is to fight
this violence of lies

1347
01:01:59,125 --> 01:02:01,250
with the clenched fist of truth.

1348
01:02:01,333 --> 01:02:04,625
I'm the National
Rifle Association of America.

1349
01:02:04,709 --> 01:02:07,417
And I'm freedom's
safest place.

1350
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:08,792
(fires)

1351
01:02:08,875 --> 01:02:11,542
(shots firing)

1352
01:02:11,959 --> 01:02:14,417
Man: Boom!
That's what I'm talking about.

1353
01:02:14,500 --> 01:02:17,542
Buck:
And if you don't conform
to that narrative,

1354
01:02:17,625 --> 01:02:19,667
you lose support financially,

1355
01:02:19,750 --> 01:02:22,834
you lose support of
a certain group of voters,

1356
01:02:22,917 --> 01:02:24,875
who say, "I'm not gonna
vote for that candidate.

1357
01:02:24,959 --> 01:02:27,375
"I want this person
who is the most extreme,

1358
01:02:27,458 --> 01:02:30,083
the, the person who's gonna
throw out the most red meat."

1359
01:02:30,166 --> 01:02:32,875
So, yes, I think, that,
uh, part of the problem

1360
01:02:32,959 --> 01:02:36,000
with nuancing is that
people expect to hear
red meat,

1361
01:02:36,083 --> 01:02:37,542
or they consider it a weakness.

1362
01:02:37,625 --> 01:02:41,000
(firing)

1363
01:02:44,625 --> 01:02:46,583
Newscaster:
Panic in El Paso this morning

1364
01:02:46,667 --> 01:02:48,834
when a day of shopping
turned into horror,

1365
01:02:48,917 --> 01:02:50,750
with an active shooter
on the loose.

1366
01:02:50,834 --> 01:02:52,667
Newscaster 2  :
Law enforcement officials
in Texas say

1367
01:02:52,750 --> 01:02:56,125
they believe the attack
was motivated by
anti-immigrant hatred.

1368
01:02:56,208 --> 01:02:59,792
The weapon used
in today's shooting
was an AK-47

1369
01:02:59,875 --> 01:03:02,083
semi-automatic
assault-style rifle.

1370
01:03:02,458 --> 01:03:05,792
You know, I'm a proud
lifetime member of the NRA.

1371
01:03:05,875 --> 01:03:08,125
I'm a gun owner.

1372
01:03:08,208 --> 01:03:10,333
America has nothing to fear

1373
01:03:10,417 --> 01:03:12,417
from law-abiding gun owners.

1374
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:14,542
Newscaster:
Right now, here in studio,

1375
01:03:14,625 --> 01:03:17,166
Congressman Matt Gaetz
from, uh, the great state
of Florida.

1376
01:03:17,250 --> 01:03:19,834
Gaetz:
It is a tough time
for our country

1377
01:03:19,917 --> 01:03:22,625
in these instances
of great casualty.

1378
01:03:22,709 --> 01:03:24,542
President Trump was right
when he said that,

1379
01:03:24,625 --> 01:03:26,333
"It's not the gun
that pulls the trigger."

1380
01:03:26,417 --> 01:03:28,208
It is this hate-filled
motivation

1381
01:03:28,291 --> 01:03:29,959
that we've gotta
get to the bottom of.

1382
01:03:30,041 --> 01:03:32,500
-Man: Always a pleasure.
-Thank you guys
for having us on.

1383
01:03:32,583 --> 01:03:33,792
-Yeah, thanks again, Todd.
-Absolutely.

1384
01:03:33,875 --> 01:03:35,333
Gaetz: All right.
Best of luck to you.

1385
01:03:35,417 --> 01:03:36,667
Hi, there. Matt Gaetz.

1386
01:03:36,750 --> 01:03:38,917
-Marlene. Marlene June.
-Where are you guys from?

1387
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:40,792
-Red Bank, New Jersey.
-Oh, wonderful.

1388
01:03:40,875 --> 01:03:42,667
-Happy to see you, meet you.
-Nice to see you, as well.

1389
01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:46,667
I want to be thin,
sexy, happy...
Republican.

1390
01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:48,458
I want to be all
those things, too.

1391
01:03:48,542 --> 01:03:50,583
-(laughing)
-We'll use the soft lens.

1392
01:03:50,667 --> 01:03:52,458
-Marlene June:
Thank you so much.
-No, thank you guys.

1393
01:03:52,542 --> 01:03:54,875
-Man: Are you gonna do anything?
-I appreciate you.
Have a great day.

1394
01:03:54,959 --> 01:03:57,834
Man: Or you just gonna
do the same thing?
Sit on your hands?

1395
01:03:58,458 --> 01:04:01,583
Do something!
Stop letting people
die all the time

1396
01:04:01,667 --> 01:04:04,083
from these white
supremacist terrorists!

1397
01:04:09,125 --> 01:04:11,333
John Sarbanes:
If you're angry and passionate

1398
01:04:11,417 --> 01:04:16,083
about the fact that
we can't get the most basic,

1399
01:04:16,166 --> 01:04:19,667
common sense gun
safety measures in place,

1400
01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:23,000
then be angry about the fact
that the gun lobby and the NRA

1401
01:04:23,083 --> 01:04:25,000
have been spending
millions of dollars up here

1402
01:04:25,083 --> 01:04:26,667
to advance their agenda.

1403
01:04:26,750 --> 01:04:29,041
That's just connecting the dots.

1404
01:04:29,125 --> 01:04:32,333
You care about tax policy,
health care, the environment,

1405
01:04:32,417 --> 01:04:35,000
you gotta care about
where the money's coming from.

1406
01:04:35,083 --> 01:04:36,709
And members of the public,

1407
01:04:36,792 --> 01:04:40,500
voters out there,
they're starting to
connect these dots.

1408
01:04:40,583 --> 01:04:42,917
Somewhere in America,

1409
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
there's a family
in their living room

1410
01:04:45,083 --> 01:04:47,208
hearing another report
about how billionaires

1411
01:04:47,291 --> 01:04:50,083
and super PACs and insiders
are running Washington,

1412
01:04:50,166 --> 01:04:52,917
and calling the shots
on what happens
in their lives.

1413
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,709
And they're asking themselves,
"Do we matter anymore?"

1414
01:04:56,792 --> 01:05:00,041
H.R. 1 says to that family,

1415
01:05:00,125 --> 01:05:02,417
and millions of families
across the country

1416
01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:03,709
who feel the same way,

1417
01:05:03,792 --> 01:05:06,625
"We get it. We hear you.

1418
01:05:06,709 --> 01:05:08,709
We want to change this place."

1419
01:05:08,792 --> 01:05:12,542
Lessig:
Nancy Pelosi was convinced
by John Sarbanes

1420
01:05:12,625 --> 01:05:16,875
to make H.R. 1 the first thing
that Congress took up
after 2018.

1421
01:05:16,959 --> 01:05:19,750
And H.R. 1 was
the most important

1422
01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:22,417
reform legislation
that Congress has considered

1423
01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:25,834
since the Voting Rights Act
of 1965.

1424
01:05:25,917 --> 01:05:28,417
Sarbanes:
The reforms we proposed:

1425
01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:30,875
fixing partisan
gerrymandering,

1426
01:05:30,959 --> 01:05:33,417
making it easier
for people to vote,

1427
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:35,875
boosting election security,

1428
01:05:35,959 --> 01:05:39,250
more disclosure on where
dark money is coming from,

1429
01:05:39,333 --> 01:05:42,625
public financing to power
campaigns in this country,

1430
01:05:42,709 --> 01:05:44,625
so we don't have to go
hat in hand

1431
01:05:44,709 --> 01:05:46,625
to lobbyists
and big money donors.

1432
01:05:46,709 --> 01:05:51,250
Every single one of those
polls at 75, 80, 85 percent
in the public,

1433
01:05:51,333 --> 01:05:55,500
so there's a lot of Republicans
that support these reforms.

1434
01:05:55,583 --> 01:05:59,792
It's just a matter of getting
their representatives
in Washington

1435
01:05:59,875 --> 01:06:02,917
to pay more attention to that
and deliver on that.

1436
01:06:03,041 --> 01:06:06,333
Newscaster:
House Democrats passed
sweeping anti-corruption

1437
01:06:06,417 --> 01:06:08,291
and voting rights legislation,

1438
01:06:08,375 --> 01:06:13,458
234 to 193 on party lines.

1439
01:06:13,542 --> 01:06:16,458
Massie:
There are these
messaging bills, like H.R. 1,

1440
01:06:16,542 --> 01:06:18,792
where the party in power
in the House

1441
01:06:18,875 --> 01:06:21,625
never really intends for them
to pass the Senate.

1442
01:06:21,709 --> 01:06:24,583
They're just trying
to send a message.

1443
01:06:24,667 --> 01:06:26,625
Buck:
It was a Democrat bill

1444
01:06:26,709 --> 01:06:29,834
that focused on getting folks
that had low turnout

1445
01:06:29,917 --> 01:06:32,166
to turn out to vote,
because they believe that

1446
01:06:32,250 --> 01:06:35,208
if they could turn out
those voters, they would
win more elections.

1447
01:06:36,375 --> 01:06:37,834
Gaetz:
I voted against H.R. 1

1448
01:06:37,917 --> 01:06:41,250
because I do not support
public financing of campaigns.

1449
01:06:41,333 --> 01:06:43,834
It is taking money
away from taxpayers

1450
01:06:43,917 --> 01:06:48,375
to fund efforts that annoy
the shit out of taxpayers.

1451
01:06:48,458 --> 01:06:52,166
Lessig:
If you are not willing
to take on the role of money

1452
01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:54,291
in the election of members
to Congress,

1453
01:06:54,375 --> 01:06:56,333
you're not a serious reformer.

1454
01:06:56,417 --> 01:06:58,625
Like, you can call yourself
a reformer.

1455
01:06:58,709 --> 01:07:00,166
But you're not changing anything

1456
01:07:00,250 --> 01:07:03,667
if you don't change
the core dynamic of incentives

1457
01:07:03,750 --> 01:07:05,417
for electing people
into Congress.

1458
01:07:05,500 --> 01:07:07,834
A party line vote,
Republicans have been
killing it,

1459
01:07:07,917 --> 01:07:10,166
noting it would use
taxpayer dollars

1460
01:07:10,250 --> 01:07:11,834
to help fund
political campaigns.

1461
01:07:11,917 --> 01:07:13,375
Majority leader
Mitch McConnell says

1462
01:07:13,458 --> 01:07:15,333
it's dead on arrival
in the Senate.

1463
01:07:15,417 --> 01:07:16,667
A power grab

1464
01:07:16,750 --> 01:07:18,959
is smelling more and more

1465
01:07:19,041 --> 01:07:21,667
like exactly what it is.

1466
01:07:21,750 --> 01:07:26,166
Lessig:
Mitch McConnell called H.R. 1
a Democratic power grab.

1467
01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:31,041
And it is, in a small "d,"
democratic sense,

1468
01:07:31,125 --> 01:07:33,500
because the existing system
we have right now

1469
01:07:33,583 --> 01:07:37,625
disables incredibly important
swaths of Americans

1470
01:07:37,709 --> 01:07:40,166
from being able to
participate equally

1471
01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:42,083
in our political system.

1472
01:07:42,166 --> 01:07:45,542
Pelosi:
H.R. 1 restores
the people's faith

1473
01:07:45,625 --> 01:07:48,625
that government works
for the people's interest.

1474
01:07:48,709 --> 01:07:51,291
Not the special interests.

1475
01:07:51,375 --> 01:07:53,417
I've been critical
of Nancy Pelosi.

1476
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:57,875
I think in many ways,
she practiced exactly
the kind of corruption

1477
01:07:57,959 --> 01:08:00,083
that I care about addressing.

1478
01:08:00,166 --> 01:08:02,291
I don't think she was
ever personally corrupt.

1479
01:08:02,375 --> 01:08:05,542
But she was one of
the biggest fundraisers
in Congress.

1480
01:08:05,625 --> 01:08:08,583
But I know that many
in that Democratic caucus

1481
01:08:08,667 --> 01:08:11,417
did not want to vote in favor
of H.R. 1.

1482
01:08:11,500 --> 01:08:14,709
And she basically
made it a requirement.

1483
01:08:14,792 --> 01:08:17,250
Sarbanes:
The hardest thing
in the world to do

1484
01:08:17,333 --> 01:08:20,375
would be to get
these reforms passed.

1485
01:08:20,458 --> 01:08:23,834
Even if Democrats end up
getting the opportunity

1486
01:08:23,917 --> 01:08:27,083
to do it across the Capitol
and in the White House,

1487
01:08:27,166 --> 01:08:30,417
because it's human nature
to feel like

1488
01:08:30,500 --> 01:08:33,625
if you're in control,
order has been restored,

1489
01:08:33,709 --> 01:08:36,917
and maybe you don't
have to go do all those
dramatic things

1490
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,750
that you talked about.

1491
01:08:38,834 --> 01:08:42,250
But the power of this message,
as it's been used,

1492
01:08:42,333 --> 01:08:44,917
this fighting corruption,
fixing democracy,

1493
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,208
draining the swamp,
whatever you want to call it,

1494
01:08:47,291 --> 01:08:50,709
the electoral power of that
is a validation

1495
01:08:50,792 --> 01:08:53,291
that the public
across the spectrum

1496
01:08:53,375 --> 01:08:55,083
wants to see these changes.

1497
01:08:55,166 --> 01:08:57,667
(cheering and applause)

1498
01:08:57,750 --> 01:09:00,250
Trump:
The special interests,
Wall Street,

1499
01:09:00,333 --> 01:09:02,250
the career politicians...

1500
01:09:02,333 --> 01:09:03,834
The system is rigged,

1501
01:09:03,917 --> 01:09:06,000
and I've been saying it
for a long time.

1502
01:09:06,083 --> 01:09:08,834
The super PACs are a scam.

1503
01:09:08,917 --> 01:09:10,875
They have total control
over the candidates.

1504
01:09:10,959 --> 01:09:13,458
These interests have rigged

1505
01:09:13,542 --> 01:09:15,792
our political
and economic system

1506
01:09:15,875 --> 01:09:18,333
for their exclusive benefit.

1507
01:09:18,417 --> 01:09:21,792
But with your help,
we're going to beat the system,

1508
01:09:21,875 --> 01:09:24,458
and we're gonna
un-rig the system.

1509
01:09:24,542 --> 01:09:26,375
John Roberts:
Congratulations,
Mr. President.

1510
01:09:28,542 --> 01:09:31,709
Lesley Stahl:
You said that lobbyists
own politicians

1511
01:09:31,792 --> 01:09:33,125
because they give them money.

1512
01:09:33,208 --> 01:09:35,333
-You admitted you
used to do it yourself.
-Sure.

1513
01:09:35,417 --> 01:09:39,000
But your own transition team,
filled with lobbyists.

1514
01:09:39,083 --> 01:09:40,500
Everybody's a lobbyist
down there.

1515
01:09:40,583 --> 01:09:41,667
-That's what they are.
They're lobbyists
-No, wait!

1516
01:09:41,750 --> 01:09:43,291
On your own transition team--

1517
01:09:43,375 --> 01:09:45,000
We're trying to clean up
Washington. Look--

1518
01:09:45,083 --> 01:09:46,250
How can you clean it up--

1519
01:09:46,333 --> 01:09:48,333
Everything--
everything down there...

1520
01:09:48,417 --> 01:09:51,458
There are no people.
They're all people that work--

1521
01:09:51,542 --> 01:09:53,500
That's the problem
with the system.

1522
01:09:53,583 --> 01:09:57,250
Interviewer:
What has President Trump done
to drain the swamp?

1523
01:09:59,125 --> 01:10:03,291
President Trump's most,
I think, uh,

1524
01:10:03,375 --> 01:10:06,041
antiseptic impact on the swamp

1525
01:10:06,125 --> 01:10:07,834
has come through a mentality

1526
01:10:07,917 --> 01:10:11,834
that the professional
class around here
is not in charge anymore.

1527
01:10:11,917 --> 01:10:13,875
Interviewer:
But we're talking about
draining the swamp.

1528
01:10:13,959 --> 01:10:17,875
I thought he was talking about
getting rid of the lobbyists

1529
01:10:17,959 --> 01:10:20,125
and special interests'
hold on this town.

1530
01:10:20,208 --> 01:10:22,333
With President Trump in office,

1531
01:10:22,417 --> 01:10:24,500
the lobbyists
and special interests

1532
01:10:24,583 --> 01:10:26,417
have never been
less empowered.

1533
01:10:26,500 --> 01:10:29,542
Reporter 1:
President Trump said that
he would "drain the swamp,"

1534
01:10:29,625 --> 01:10:33,250
taking power away from
Washington lobbyists
and special interests.

1535
01:10:33,333 --> 01:10:37,041
Now, more of them
have seats at his table
in his cabinet.

1536
01:10:37,125 --> 01:10:40,500
Reporter 2: In total,
more than 300 lobbyists

1537
01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:42,875
now work in the Trump
administration,

1538
01:10:42,959 --> 01:10:46,333
many overseeing the industries
they used to lobby for.

1539
01:10:46,417 --> 01:10:48,792
Reporter 3:
They've essentially sold out
government agencies,

1540
01:10:48,875 --> 01:10:50,500
and the White House,
to industry.

1541
01:10:50,583 --> 01:10:53,125
Reporter 4:
Wall Street
loves Donald Trump.

1542
01:10:53,208 --> 01:10:56,083
Reporter 5:
Big money contributions
from friendly donors

1543
01:10:56,166 --> 01:10:57,875
are paying off for them.

1544
01:10:57,959 --> 01:10:59,500
Reporter 6:
Large political contributors

1545
01:10:59,583 --> 01:11:01,083
buy access to President Trump

1546
01:11:01,166 --> 01:11:04,250
using political contributions
to Trump's super PAC...

1547
01:11:04,333 --> 01:11:06,375
Reporter 7:
Trump businesses
are making a killing

1548
01:11:06,458 --> 01:11:08,792
from political groups
and federal agencies.

1549
01:11:08,875 --> 01:11:12,208
Reporter 8:
President Trump's landmark
Washington, DC, hotel.

1550
01:11:12,291 --> 01:11:14,250
It's been a hot spot
for lobbyists

1551
01:11:14,333 --> 01:11:17,709
who want to gain favor
with the Trump administration.

1552
01:11:17,792 --> 01:11:21,291
But if you look at
drain the swamp,
I am draining the swamp.

1553
01:11:21,375 --> 01:11:23,000
Thank you very much.

1554
01:11:32,583 --> 01:11:35,417
So what are you hearing
about our amendment?

1555
01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:38,375
Khanna:
That it's still
a little bit uphill,

1556
01:11:38,458 --> 01:11:40,125
but, uh, they're pushing it.

1557
01:11:40,208 --> 01:11:42,125
-What are you hearing
on your side?
-Same thing.

1558
01:11:42,208 --> 01:11:46,709
I'm hearing that there
are definitely some
members of the war lobby

1559
01:11:46,792 --> 01:11:48,959
who are singularly focused on

1560
01:11:49,041 --> 01:11:51,458
ensuring that our
work product's not included.

1561
01:11:51,542 --> 01:11:53,959
Gaetz:
The Khanna-Gaetz amendment
passed

1562
01:11:54,041 --> 01:11:55,500
in the
House of Representatives.

1563
01:11:55,583 --> 01:11:57,333
Woman:
The "yeas" are 251,

1564
01:11:57,417 --> 01:11:59,041
and the "nays" are 170.

1565
01:11:59,125 --> 01:12:00,542
The amendment is adopted.

1566
01:12:00,625 --> 01:12:02,667
Gaetz:
We got essentially
every Democrat vote,

1567
01:12:02,750 --> 01:12:05,375
and we got 27 Republicans
to vote for it,

1568
01:12:05,458 --> 01:12:08,417
so it is in the House version
of the NDAA,

1569
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:10,625
and when it was voted on
in the Senate,

1570
01:12:10,709 --> 01:12:14,333
we got 50 votes,
and there were fewer
than 50 votes against it.

1571
01:12:14,417 --> 01:12:17,458
But in the crazy rules
of the United States Senate,

1572
01:12:17,542 --> 01:12:20,583
even when you get
the most votes,
you can still lose

1573
01:12:20,667 --> 01:12:22,834
if you have not reached
a 60-vote threshold.

1574
01:12:22,917 --> 01:12:24,959
And we're making the case that

1575
01:12:25,041 --> 01:12:28,583
because of the broad
bipartisan support of
Khanna-Gaetz in the House,

1576
01:12:28,667 --> 01:12:31,208
and because more people
voted for it than against it
in the Senate,

1577
01:12:31,291 --> 01:12:34,542
it should absolutely be
presented to the President
for his signature.

1578
01:12:34,625 --> 01:12:37,792
Where has McConnell
traditionally been on these
war powers issues?

1579
01:12:37,875 --> 01:12:41,667
I think the best guess
of where he's gonna be
on this issue

1580
01:12:41,750 --> 01:12:44,834
is, uh, where the President
wants him to be on this issue.

1581
01:12:44,917 --> 01:12:46,583
And the President sees this

1582
01:12:46,667 --> 01:12:49,333
as an important part of his
rebuilding the military,

1583
01:12:49,417 --> 01:12:51,583
and he's not gonna
send the signal
to Mitch McConnell to,

1584
01:12:51,667 --> 01:12:53,417
to, uh, work with us on this.

1585
01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:56,083
Huh.

1586
01:12:56,166 --> 01:12:57,917
Trump:
This destructive cycle

1587
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,500
of intervention and chaos

1588
01:13:00,583 --> 01:13:04,291
must finally, folks,
come to an end.

1589
01:13:04,375 --> 01:13:05,834
Come to an end.

1590
01:13:05,917 --> 01:13:08,250
We need to ask those
who voted for the war

1591
01:13:08,333 --> 01:13:11,208
how can you give the President
a blank check,

1592
01:13:11,291 --> 01:13:13,834
and then act surprised
when he cashes it?

1593
01:13:13,917 --> 01:13:16,542
We keep trying to
elect Presidents to end wars.

1594
01:13:16,625 --> 01:13:18,500
It's no coincidence
that Donald Trump

1595
01:13:18,583 --> 01:13:20,458
became President
in the Republican field.

1596
01:13:20,542 --> 01:13:23,125
He said that the war in Iraq
was a blunder

1597
01:13:23,208 --> 01:13:24,458
in the Republican primary.

1598
01:13:24,542 --> 01:13:28,333
The war in Iraq was
a big, fat mistake.

1599
01:13:28,417 --> 01:13:31,542
And yet, we've been too slow
to roll back these wars.

1600
01:13:31,625 --> 01:13:33,500
And I think we need a Congress

1601
01:13:33,583 --> 01:13:37,000
willing to stand up
to a President,
regardless of party.

1602
01:13:37,083 --> 01:13:40,709
Massie:
It would be a very solid
brick in the wall

1603
01:13:40,792 --> 01:13:42,583
in reestablishing

1604
01:13:42,667 --> 01:13:44,500
our Congressional war powers

1605
01:13:44,583 --> 01:13:46,500
if something like
Ro Khanna's amendment

1606
01:13:46,583 --> 01:13:51,250
could get placed in
the National Defense
Authorization Act.

1607
01:13:51,333 --> 01:13:54,583
But it always feels like
Charlie Brown and Lucy.

1608
01:13:54,667 --> 01:13:57,917
We get ready to
kick the football,
and Lucy pulls it away.

1609
01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,625
Charlie Brown:
(screams) Ugh!

1610
01:13:59,709 --> 01:14:01,542
-(thuds)
-(grunts)

1611
01:14:03,083 --> 01:14:08,166
♪

1612
01:14:09,875 --> 01:14:12,917
Announcer:
This is an "ABC News"
Special Report.

1613
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,291
George Stephanopoulos:
Good afternoon.

1614
01:14:14,375 --> 01:14:15,709
We're coming on
the air right now

1615
01:14:15,792 --> 01:14:17,750
with major breaking news
from Capitol Hill.

1616
01:14:17,834 --> 01:14:20,709
The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
has made that dramatic shift

1617
01:14:20,792 --> 01:14:23,917
to decide to open a formal
impeachment inquiry
of President Trump.

1618
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,041
It comes in the wake of
President Trump's confirmation

1619
01:14:27,125 --> 01:14:29,291
that he withheld
military aid from Ukraine

1620
01:14:29,375 --> 01:14:31,750
about a week before
a July 25th phone call

1621
01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:33,583
with the Ukrainian
President,

1622
01:14:33,667 --> 01:14:36,291
where he was reported
to have encouraged
the Ukrainian President

1623
01:14:36,375 --> 01:14:39,208
to investigate Joe Biden
and his son Hunter,

1624
01:14:39,291 --> 01:14:41,458
who had business interests
in the Ukraine.

1625
01:14:41,542 --> 01:14:45,291
Newscaster:
Zelensky was interested in
Javelin anti-tank missiles

1626
01:14:45,375 --> 01:14:48,583
to defend himself from
Russian-backed rebels.

1627
01:14:48,667 --> 01:14:50,333
Mr. Trump replied,

1628
01:14:50,417 --> 01:14:52,959
"I would like you to
do us a favor, though."

1629
01:14:53,041 --> 01:14:54,875
What you just described
is a quid pro quo.

1630
01:14:54,959 --> 01:14:57,041
We do that all the time.
Get over it.

1631
01:14:57,125 --> 01:15:00,834
The fact that Trump
called Zelensky a day
after Mueller testified,

1632
01:15:00,917 --> 01:15:02,583
tells you everything
you need to know

1633
01:15:02,667 --> 01:15:04,542
about the hubris
of this President.

1634
01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:07,667
-He's very happy.
-Pelosi: The President
of the United States

1635
01:15:07,750 --> 01:15:09,458
used taxpayer dollars

1636
01:15:09,542 --> 01:15:12,166
to shake down the leader
of another country

1637
01:15:12,250 --> 01:15:14,417
for his own political gain.

1638
01:15:17,750 --> 01:15:20,834
Gaetz:
Why are Nancy Pelosi
and today's House Democrats

1639
01:15:20,917 --> 01:15:24,208
not giving President Trump
the same due process rights

1640
01:15:24,291 --> 01:15:26,166
that Newt Gingrich
and Republicans

1641
01:15:26,250 --> 01:15:29,000
gave to Bill Clinton during
his impeachment process?

1642
01:15:29,083 --> 01:15:32,667
Instead, what you see
are secret hearings,
secret depositions,

1643
01:15:32,750 --> 01:15:36,583
and then selective leaks
to try to fit a predetermined
narrative.

1644
01:15:36,667 --> 01:15:38,667
What we see in this impeachment

1645
01:15:38,750 --> 01:15:40,166
is a kangaroo court.

1646
01:15:40,250 --> 01:15:42,000
And Chairman Schiff
is acting like

1647
01:15:42,083 --> 01:15:43,542
a malicious Captain Kangaroo.

1648
01:15:43,625 --> 01:15:47,500
"Chairman Schiff is acting like
a malicious Captain Kangaroo."

1649
01:15:47,583 --> 01:15:51,417
Trump's being railroaded
by the terrifying
Thomas the Tank engine.

1650
01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:53,917
This whole thing is
a load of Howdy Doody,

1651
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,500
and is brought to you
by the letters "F" and "U."

1652
01:16:02,291 --> 01:16:04,417
Gaetz:
A lot of younger Republicans

1653
01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:05,917
who've just been elected
come to me,

1654
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,166
asking for advice about
how to grow their profile

1655
01:16:09,250 --> 01:16:12,875
and become more proficient
in media, and online.

1656
01:16:12,959 --> 01:16:15,083
And I tell 'em at the outset,

1657
01:16:15,166 --> 01:16:17,792
"You make yourself a target
when you live like I live."

1658
01:16:17,875 --> 01:16:20,875
I mean, if you want to
really get in the fight,

1659
01:16:20,959 --> 01:16:23,375
there's going to be
some return fire.

1660
01:16:23,458 --> 01:16:27,500
And most of the time,
when I let folks know
that that's the case,

1661
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,792
they're not interested
in any more advice
about how to do it.

1662
01:16:32,500 --> 01:16:35,959
I, uh, don't go out
to eat much, because...

1663
01:16:36,041 --> 01:16:38,291
in this town, you know,
if you go out to eat,

1664
01:16:38,375 --> 01:16:40,375
it's always the opportunity,
for...

1665
01:16:40,458 --> 01:16:43,500
you know, someone with
an iPhone and an axe to grind

1666
01:16:43,583 --> 01:16:46,250
to come up and try
to have their viral moment

1667
01:16:46,333 --> 01:16:47,917
at your expense, so...

1668
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,000
Most nights, it's not,
uh, any fancy restaurant.

1669
01:16:51,083 --> 01:16:52,792
It's Uber Eats.

1670
01:16:52,875 --> 01:16:56,041
And, uh, I'm feeling
lamb chops tonight.

1671
01:16:56,125 --> 01:16:58,166
Thanks, I appreciate it.

1672
01:16:59,333 --> 01:17:01,000
(elevator dings)

1673
01:17:02,166 --> 01:17:04,041
This Ukraine stuff

1674
01:17:04,125 --> 01:17:06,917
is not impeachable conduct.

1675
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:10,667
But it is a different dynamic
to litigate for us

1676
01:17:10,750 --> 01:17:15,166
as members of Congress
than the Russia probe,

1677
01:17:15,250 --> 01:17:19,125
because so many of us
were involved in the
President's campaign.

1678
01:17:19,208 --> 01:17:22,959
Gotta watch a little CNN.
Opposition research.

1679
01:17:23,041 --> 01:17:27,959
In 2016, I was speaking
at Trump rallies all over
the country,

1680
01:17:28,041 --> 01:17:29,792
I was communicating
with people who were

1681
01:17:29,875 --> 01:17:32,709
running the President's campaign
in various states.

1682
01:17:32,792 --> 01:17:35,792
And so I had an insight
that this was not someone
who was engaged

1683
01:17:35,875 --> 01:17:38,750
in some vast criminal
conspiracy with
the Russian Federation

1684
01:17:38,834 --> 01:17:41,542
to negatively impact
the US election.

1685
01:17:42,542 --> 01:17:44,250
But this ain't Russia.

1686
01:17:49,333 --> 01:17:52,083
(TV playing indistinctly)

1687
01:17:54,667 --> 01:17:56,917
Hey, Mr. President.
It's Matt Gaetz.

1688
01:17:58,875 --> 01:18:01,375
I don't need anything, sir.
Just calling to tell you

1689
01:18:01,458 --> 01:18:02,667
you did a great job today.

1690
01:18:02,750 --> 01:18:04,333
Don't let these people
get you down.

1691
01:18:04,417 --> 01:18:06,667
We're gonna keep fighting
for you with all we got.

1692
01:18:06,750 --> 01:18:08,750
(Trump speaking)

1693
01:18:08,834 --> 01:18:10,375
Well, thank you.

1694
01:18:11,959 --> 01:18:14,250
(Trump speaking)

1695
01:18:19,083 --> 01:18:20,542
(chuckles)

1696
01:18:23,834 --> 01:18:25,291
All right.

1697
01:18:39,250 --> 01:18:40,375
Yeah.

1698
01:18:40,458 --> 01:18:42,792
Well, wait till you see
what we got for tomorrow.

1699
01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:53,625
Right.

1700
01:18:59,625 --> 01:19:04,291
Well, and, and Zelensky
was shit-talking Macron
and Merkel.

1701
01:19:05,250 --> 01:19:07,917
About how they don't
do anything, and it's
the United States,

1702
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,709
it's your movement
to drain the swamp

1703
01:19:09,792 --> 01:19:12,458
that inspired Ukraine
to better days.

1704
01:19:28,375 --> 01:19:31,208
Thank you. You're the best,
Mr. President.

1705
01:19:32,041 --> 01:19:33,333
Will do.

1706
01:19:33,959 --> 01:19:35,875
We will. See you.

1707
01:19:47,166 --> 01:19:49,834
(TV unmutes)

1708
01:19:51,875 --> 01:19:56,250
♪

1709
01:19:56,333 --> 01:19:57,834
Gaetz:
Our central point is that

1710
01:19:57,917 --> 01:19:59,959
regardless of how people
feel about the President,

1711
01:20:00,041 --> 01:20:01,500
this is no way
to run a railroad.

1712
01:20:01,583 --> 01:20:03,291
You know, that we
should not be, uh,

1713
01:20:03,375 --> 01:20:06,166
hiding things from
the American people,
and from members of Congress.

1714
01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:08,792
So, uh, those who want
to say a piece, say that.

1715
01:20:08,875 --> 01:20:10,166
Just kind of keep on
that message.

1716
01:20:10,250 --> 01:20:12,625
And then, after we're done,
we roll back there.

1717
01:20:12,709 --> 01:20:14,875
Andy Biggs:
It's another moment
in history, actually.

1718
01:20:14,959 --> 01:20:18,458
Ten years from now,
you'll be able to say,
we went down there.

1719
01:20:18,542 --> 01:20:19,667
We demanded it.

1720
01:20:19,750 --> 01:20:21,834
And we're not--
And we're not allowed in.

1721
01:20:21,917 --> 01:20:23,625
Yeah, we weren't allowed in.

1722
01:20:23,709 --> 01:20:25,417
-Let's do it!
-(indistinct chatter)

1723
01:20:28,208 --> 01:20:30,959
Gaetz:
I'm gathered here
with dozens

1724
01:20:31,041 --> 01:20:33,709
of my Congressional
colleagues

1725
01:20:33,792 --> 01:20:35,834
in the basement
of the Capitol.

1726
01:20:35,917 --> 01:20:37,458
because if
behind those doors,

1727
01:20:37,542 --> 01:20:40,166
they intend
to overturn the results

1728
01:20:40,250 --> 01:20:42,291
of an American
Presidential election,

1729
01:20:42,375 --> 01:20:44,125
we want to know
what's going on.

1730
01:20:44,208 --> 01:20:46,166
And so we're gonna
try to go in there

1731
01:20:46,250 --> 01:20:48,458
on behalf of
the millions of Americans

1732
01:20:48,542 --> 01:20:49,792
that we represent

1733
01:20:49,875 --> 01:20:52,166
that want to see this Congress
working for them,

1734
01:20:52,250 --> 01:20:54,834
and not obsessed with
attacking a President

1735
01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:58,417
who we believe
has not done anything
to deserve impeachment.

1736
01:20:58,500 --> 01:21:01,208
We're gonna go,
and see if we can get inside.
So...

1737
01:21:01,291 --> 01:21:03,542
Let's, uh...
Let's see if we can get in.

1738
01:21:03,625 --> 01:21:05,166
Newscaster:
Congressional Republicans

1739
01:21:05,250 --> 01:21:09,208
stormed this closed-door
deposition in a secure room

1740
01:21:09,291 --> 01:21:11,125
and disrupted the testimony

1741
01:21:11,208 --> 01:21:12,917
of the Deputy Assistant
Defense Secretary.

1742
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,000
Congressman:
Do it in front of everybody!

1743
01:21:15,083 --> 01:21:17,750
In public! In public!

1744
01:21:17,834 --> 01:21:20,709
We just want to see
what you're doing!
Why are you hiding?

1745
01:21:20,792 --> 01:21:22,917
(indistinct chatter)

1746
01:21:23,750 --> 01:21:26,166
There's three doors to
get into the actual SCIF,

1747
01:21:26,250 --> 01:21:27,542
into the actual
intel committee.

1748
01:21:27,625 --> 01:21:28,709
So after the press conference

1749
01:21:28,792 --> 01:21:30,250
they all went to
the second door,

1750
01:21:30,333 --> 01:21:31,875
which is where
the police officer
actually is,

1751
01:21:31,959 --> 01:21:33,083
and he won't let anyone in.

1752
01:21:33,166 --> 01:21:35,000
But then they start chanting,
"Let us in,"

1753
01:21:35,083 --> 01:21:36,208
over and over again.

1754
01:21:36,291 --> 01:21:37,875
And then they kind of
bum-rush the door,

1755
01:21:37,959 --> 01:21:40,667
to where all the members
just kind of went past
the police officer,

1756
01:21:40,750 --> 01:21:42,458
and they weren't, obviously,
going to arrest them.

1757
01:21:42,542 --> 01:21:44,166
Newscaster:
It isn't over yet.

1758
01:21:44,250 --> 01:21:47,375
Those Republicans are still
in that secure room,

1759
01:21:47,458 --> 01:21:49,041
refusing to leave.

1760
01:21:49,125 --> 01:21:52,709
One Democratic Congressman
tells CNN that snacks were
brought in,

1761
01:21:52,792 --> 01:21:55,542
and they are now eating pizza.

1762
01:21:55,625 --> 01:21:58,959
♪

1763
01:22:04,166 --> 01:22:08,875
We're happy that everything
turned out favorably, and...

1764
01:22:08,959 --> 01:22:11,083
-Khanna:
Making news all over the place.
-Gaetz: Hey, man.

1765
01:22:11,166 --> 01:22:13,125
Um, I, uh, I talked to Smith,

1766
01:22:13,208 --> 01:22:15,250
and, uh, you know, I mean...

1767
01:22:15,333 --> 01:22:17,208
-Yeah.
-News looks bad.

1768
01:22:17,291 --> 01:22:19,542
-Does it?
-Yeah. I mean, I don't
know if they're, like,

1769
01:22:19,625 --> 01:22:21,750
getting ready to give up
fighting or what, but,

1770
01:22:21,834 --> 01:22:23,625
-doesn't look good.
-I haven't, I haven't heard.

1771
01:22:23,709 --> 01:22:25,375
-Yeah, he just said that--
-He keeps telling me that

1772
01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:27,125
-they're still fighting,
pushing, so--
-Yeah.

1773
01:22:27,208 --> 01:22:29,083
-Maybe he's just trying
to encourage me.
-(laughs)

1774
01:22:29,166 --> 01:22:30,750
-All right.
-See you, Ro.

1775
01:22:30,834 --> 01:22:33,834
Well, it was a scene not in
the United States Congress,

1776
01:22:33,917 --> 01:22:35,208
but at a fraternity.

1777
01:22:35,291 --> 01:22:38,083
I mean, you had about
20 Republicans come in.

1778
01:22:38,166 --> 01:22:40,208
They were yelling,
they brought in

1779
01:22:40,291 --> 01:22:41,750
their phones
into the SCIF,

1780
01:22:41,834 --> 01:22:44,458
which everyone knows
is against, uh, the law.

1781
01:22:44,542 --> 01:22:48,333
Uh, and then they started
ordering pizza, and there
were pizza boxes

1782
01:22:48,417 --> 01:22:50,250
strewn all over the SCIF.

1783
01:22:50,333 --> 01:22:51,583
I mean,
they didn't even clean up.

1784
01:22:51,667 --> 01:22:53,625
I mean, it was really
just an embarrassment.

1785
01:22:53,709 --> 01:22:56,458
And by the way,
Republicans are in that room,

1786
01:22:56,542 --> 01:22:59,834
they get to ask questions,
they get equal time
as the Democrats,

1787
01:22:59,917 --> 01:23:01,792
so it's the height
of hypocrisy

1788
01:23:01,875 --> 01:23:03,834
for Republicans to complain.

1789
01:23:04,875 --> 01:23:06,333
Passerby 1:
Shame!

1790
01:23:09,959 --> 01:23:12,083
Passerby 2:
What an asshole.

1791
01:23:14,208 --> 01:23:15,834
TMZ reporter: You know,
you just single-handedly

1792
01:23:15,917 --> 01:23:19,291
led a group to shut down
this entire impeachment
investigation.

1793
01:23:19,375 --> 01:23:21,208
What-- What were
you thinking, man?

1794
01:23:21,291 --> 01:23:23,667
We were, uh, like,
you know, the 300,

1795
01:23:23,750 --> 01:23:26,375
standing in the breach,
to try to stop the radical left

1796
01:23:26,458 --> 01:23:28,667
from starm--
storming over our democracy.

1797
01:23:28,750 --> 01:23:31,166
Did the President
tell you guys to do this
or did you decide on your own?

1798
01:23:31,250 --> 01:23:33,458
No, I, uh, haven't chatted
with the President about it,

1799
01:23:33,542 --> 01:23:36,792
thought I suspect he may
have a view he might
want to share after today.

1800
01:23:36,875 --> 01:23:38,667
Lou Dobbs:
The President tweeted this:

1801
01:23:38,750 --> 01:23:42,208
"Thank you
to House Republicans
for being tough, smart,

1802
01:23:42,291 --> 01:23:44,208
"and understanding in detail

1803
01:23:44,291 --> 01:23:47,250
the greatest witch hunt
in American history."

1804
01:23:48,125 --> 01:23:50,500
♪

1805
01:23:50,583 --> 01:23:53,959
Khanna:
You know, when you read
Madison's "Federalist 51,"

1806
01:23:54,041 --> 01:23:57,000
his theory of separation
of powers was very simple.

1807
01:23:57,083 --> 01:23:59,500
He said,
"Politicians are ambitious,

1808
01:23:59,583 --> 01:24:02,166
and ambition will
counteract ambition."

1809
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:05,208
You don't really have to
worry about the President
being too powerful,

1810
01:24:05,291 --> 01:24:07,583
because there will be
ambitious people in Congress.

1811
01:24:07,667 --> 01:24:09,250
They'll want to have
their own power,

1812
01:24:09,333 --> 01:24:11,709
and they'll make sure
that they put a check

1813
01:24:11,792 --> 01:24:13,500
on the Presidency.

1814
01:24:13,583 --> 01:24:15,333
Madison didn't
count on partisanship.

1815
01:24:15,417 --> 01:24:18,542
He didn't anticipate that
people would be less loyal

1816
01:24:18,625 --> 01:24:22,542
to the institution they serve in
and more loyal to their party.

1817
01:24:22,625 --> 01:24:26,875
And what you've seen now
is a total abdication
by Republicans

1818
01:24:26,959 --> 01:24:31,375
of willingness to hold
the President accountable.

1819
01:24:31,458 --> 01:24:35,250
Gaetz:
I didn't run as someone
to unify Washington.

1820
01:24:35,333 --> 01:24:36,917
I ran to change Washington.

1821
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,834
And I do believe that
there is a consensus
in the country

1822
01:24:40,917 --> 01:24:42,291
that that is necessary.

1823
01:24:42,375 --> 01:24:45,166
Interviewer:
Do you think that you
exacerbate partisanship?

1824
01:24:45,625 --> 01:24:47,417
(laughs)
Uh...

1825
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:51,041
You know, I, I, I'm sure
that there are days

1826
01:24:51,125 --> 01:24:53,250
when I advance partisanship.

1827
01:24:53,333 --> 01:24:56,417
I think there are days
when I advance
bipartisanship.

1828
01:24:56,500 --> 01:24:59,875
I don't think you
sort of choose one style
or the other.

1829
01:24:59,959 --> 01:25:03,333
I think you can be partisan,
bipartisan fluid.

1830
01:25:03,917 --> 01:25:07,750
(wind whistling)

1831
01:25:07,834 --> 01:25:10,750
Pelosi:
Today, the House takes
the next step forward

1832
01:25:10,834 --> 01:25:12,750
as we establish the procedures

1833
01:25:12,834 --> 01:25:14,250
for open hearings

1834
01:25:14,333 --> 01:25:16,917
conducted by the
House Intelligence Committee,

1835
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,583
so that the public can see
the facts for themselves.

1836
01:25:20,667 --> 01:25:23,250
Jackie Speier (on TV):
You have endured
and orchestrated

1837
01:25:23,333 --> 01:25:24,917
character assassination

1838
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,917
that was laced with
enormous campaign
contributions

1839
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:31,542
to the President's
reelection campaign.

1840
01:25:31,625 --> 01:25:34,250
Gaetz:
Honestly, I did not
sleep last night.

1841
01:25:34,333 --> 01:25:37,041
So frustrated that I am
not able to participate

1842
01:25:37,125 --> 01:25:38,750
in these hearings
as a questioner.

1843
01:25:38,834 --> 01:25:42,125
If we were doing this
with all cards face up
as a fair process,

1844
01:25:42,208 --> 01:25:45,375
this would actually be going on
in the House Judiciary Committee
where I serve.

1845
01:25:45,458 --> 01:25:48,041
But because we kicked
the Democrats' ass on Mueller,

1846
01:25:48,125 --> 01:25:50,500
they've moved to the
Intelligence Committee.

1847
01:25:50,583 --> 01:25:53,792
You confirmed to
President Trump
that you were in

1848
01:25:53,875 --> 01:25:55,917
Ukraine at the time.

1849
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:59,917
And that President Zelensky,
quote, "Loves your ass."
Unquote.

1850
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,792
Do you recall saying that?

1851
01:26:01,875 --> 01:26:04,000
Yeah, it sounds like
something I would say.

1852
01:26:04,083 --> 01:26:05,750
(laughs)

1853
01:26:05,834 --> 01:26:07,417
Massie:
Can you get a number
from Jonathan

1854
01:26:07,500 --> 01:26:09,834
how many people have completed
our impeachment poll?

1855
01:26:09,917 --> 01:26:11,792
John Ferland:
Yeah. I'll get that for us.

1856
01:26:11,875 --> 01:26:14,917
Massie:
Has the impeachment
been a fundraising boon

1857
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,750
for both sides?
Absolutely.

1858
01:26:17,834 --> 01:26:20,959
But I have resisted
the temptation

1859
01:26:21,041 --> 01:26:23,166
to raise any money
off of impeachment.

1860
01:26:23,250 --> 01:26:26,000
I haven't even sent out
a fundraising letter

1861
01:26:26,083 --> 01:26:27,709
since the impeachment started.

1862
01:26:27,792 --> 01:26:30,500
Ferland:
So, around 3:40,
you head down to the HVC.

1863
01:26:30,583 --> 01:26:32,166
What's the meeting in HVC?

1864
01:26:32,250 --> 01:26:34,667
-Um, it's all impeachment.
-(scoffs)

1865
01:26:34,750 --> 01:26:36,834
-Okay.
-Impeachment,
impeachment.

1866
01:26:36,917 --> 01:26:39,333
Then 4:30, we're planning
on vote times.

1867
01:26:39,417 --> 01:26:41,125
-That'll run till about 5:30.
-There're, there're--

1868
01:26:41,208 --> 01:26:44,083
-There are no
committee hearings?
-Not a single one.

1869
01:26:44,166 --> 01:26:47,166
-Mm, okay. Makes it easy.
-Yeah.

1870
01:26:47,750 --> 01:26:51,000
-I'll just take some more
phone calls, then.
-Let's do it.

1871
01:26:51,083 --> 01:26:53,458
♪

1872
01:26:53,542 --> 01:26:54,959
Woman (on phone):
Yes, hello?

1873
01:26:55,041 --> 01:26:57,875
Hi, this is Thomas Massie.
Who am I talking to?

1874
01:26:57,959 --> 01:26:59,375
This is like
Russian roulette.

1875
01:26:59,458 --> 01:27:02,500
I don't know
if they are happy,
or angry,

1876
01:27:02,583 --> 01:27:03,625
or undecided.

1877
01:27:03,709 --> 01:27:05,542
I'm just taking their call
straight up.

1878
01:27:05,625 --> 01:27:07,792
Hi. This is Congressman
Ken Buck's office.

1879
01:27:08,583 --> 01:27:10,291
(woman speaking on phone)

1880
01:27:10,375 --> 01:27:12,000
This is Congressman Ken Buck.

1881
01:27:12,083 --> 01:27:14,291
(woman speaking on phone)

1882
01:27:21,333 --> 01:27:24,583
Tell me why you believe
I don't understand
the rule of law.

1883
01:27:24,667 --> 01:27:27,333
(man speaking on phone)

1884
01:27:31,291 --> 01:27:32,792
Mm-hmm.

1885
01:27:36,458 --> 01:27:39,208
(woman speaking on phone)

1886
01:27:48,458 --> 01:27:50,166
Here's, here's what
you have from me.

1887
01:27:50,250 --> 01:27:52,500
You have my commitment
to keep an open mind.

1888
01:27:52,583 --> 01:27:56,000
I'm gonna watch as much
of this hearing as I can today,

1889
01:27:56,083 --> 01:27:58,375
while I'm taking phone calls.

1890
01:27:58,458 --> 01:28:01,709
(man speaking on phone)

1891
01:28:06,125 --> 01:28:07,792
Buck:
I'm sorry.

1892
01:28:11,709 --> 01:28:14,333
(woman speaking on phone)

1893
01:28:20,959 --> 01:28:23,625
Massie:
Okay, well, I'm trying
not to interrupt you, but I do,

1894
01:28:23,709 --> 01:28:26,625
-I do have other people
I need to take calls from.
-Woman (on phone): I know.

1895
01:28:26,709 --> 01:28:29,375
(man speaking on phone)

1896
01:28:38,375 --> 01:28:39,959
Well, I appreciate--

1897
01:28:40,041 --> 01:28:41,792
I appreciate your feedback
very much.

1898
01:28:41,875 --> 01:28:44,083
-You have a great day.
-(man speaking on phone)

1899
01:28:44,667 --> 01:28:46,625
That's great. Take care.

1900
01:28:46,709 --> 01:28:48,166
Bye.

1901
01:28:49,041 --> 01:28:50,709
I've had enough.

1902
01:28:52,709 --> 01:28:55,625
I have to tell you,
I think that this place
has drained me

1903
01:28:55,709 --> 01:28:57,709
of a certain amount of life.

1904
01:28:59,583 --> 01:29:01,667
After having been here
for five years,

1905
01:29:01,750 --> 01:29:03,208
I have no illusion

1906
01:29:03,291 --> 01:29:07,000
that what I say
anybody cares about.

1907
01:29:07,083 --> 01:29:09,500
I have thought about leaving
and I don't know whether

1908
01:29:09,583 --> 01:29:12,417
this is my last term
or whether I'll run
for one more term.

1909
01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:15,583
Uh, I do know that a lot of
the folks at home

1910
01:29:15,667 --> 01:29:18,500
will not understand
the long-term implications

1911
01:29:18,583 --> 01:29:20,625
of what's happening
here in DC.

1912
01:29:20,709 --> 01:29:23,750
Throughout the White House
right now, they're going
to do an omni

1913
01:29:23,834 --> 01:29:26,458
that apparently is going
to bust the budget caps.

1914
01:29:26,542 --> 01:29:27,834
I just heard.

1915
01:29:27,917 --> 01:29:29,875
Buck:
This President has
presented budgets

1916
01:29:29,959 --> 01:29:31,458
that are huge.

1917
01:29:31,542 --> 01:29:34,583
Typically, the Freedom Caucus
would be leading the charge

1918
01:29:34,667 --> 01:29:37,834
to criticize an
executive branch proposal

1919
01:29:37,917 --> 01:29:39,333
that costs that much money.

1920
01:29:39,417 --> 01:29:41,208
Now, that's just not the case.

1921
01:29:41,291 --> 01:29:42,875
And it's not the case because

1922
01:29:42,959 --> 01:29:45,542
when Freedom Caucus members
look at their political base,

1923
01:29:45,625 --> 01:29:49,083
they realize that so much
of their base are Trump lovers,

1924
01:29:49,166 --> 01:29:52,542
where nothing
this President does
can possibly be wrong,

1925
01:29:52,625 --> 01:29:54,792
that they can't
criticize the President.

1926
01:30:09,500 --> 01:30:12,959
So, we did 40k
for October. 40k.

1927
01:30:13,041 --> 01:30:14,500
-Net?
-Yes, netted.

1928
01:30:14,583 --> 01:30:17,250
-Wow.
-And then for Nove--

1929
01:30:17,333 --> 01:30:19,834
So from November,
right now,

1930
01:30:19,917 --> 01:30:22,125
we are already at 15.

1931
01:30:22,208 --> 01:30:23,667
-Netted.
-Netted.

1932
01:30:23,750 --> 01:30:25,417
-Yeah, 15,000.
-So, what do you think we'll

1933
01:30:25,500 --> 01:30:28,208
-net then, this month?
-I think we're gonna get
around 40.

1934
01:30:28,291 --> 01:30:29,583
-That's amazing.
-Yeah.

1935
01:30:29,667 --> 01:30:32,291
So, when we met last
on fundraising,

1936
01:30:32,375 --> 01:30:34,667
you said we were
functionally bankrupt,

1937
01:30:34,750 --> 01:30:36,792
and now what has saved us
has been impeachment?

1938
01:30:36,875 --> 01:30:38,750
Yeah, so all of it
is mostly small dollar,

1939
01:30:38,834 --> 01:30:40,750
but everyone's
doing well off of it.

1940
01:30:40,834 --> 01:30:41,959
It's not just our office.

1941
01:30:42,041 --> 01:30:44,083
Some lobbyists have
randomly texted me

1942
01:30:44,166 --> 01:30:46,500
that they've donated
or given money.

1943
01:30:46,583 --> 01:30:49,875
Has there been any
revenue from the
special interest community?

1944
01:30:49,959 --> 01:30:51,750
I would say about $3,000.
Not much.

1945
01:30:51,834 --> 01:30:54,041
-(laughs)
As is usual, then.
-Yeah.

1946
01:30:54,125 --> 01:30:57,000
But, you know, I mean,
if we were to make
some announcement

1947
01:30:57,083 --> 01:30:59,875
that, like, we,
we have converted
to this new faith

1948
01:30:59,959 --> 01:31:04,125
that, that is absent
any lobbyist or PAC money--

1949
01:31:04,208 --> 01:31:06,250
I mean, once you
cross the Rubicon,
you can't go back.

1950
01:31:06,333 --> 01:31:07,834
Well, that's,
that's my only
concern with it.

1951
01:31:07,917 --> 01:31:09,709
What I don't want you to do
is shoot yourself in the foot

1952
01:31:09,792 --> 01:31:11,291
for a later time
in 20 years from now

1953
01:31:11,375 --> 01:31:13,125
when you want to run for
something that's bigger,
you know?

1954
01:31:13,208 --> 01:31:15,959
I assure you, I will not
be running for anything
in 20 years.

1955
01:31:16,041 --> 01:31:17,875
Never say never.

1956
01:31:17,959 --> 01:31:19,917
Sarbanes:
Before January,

1957
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,250
there were seven
members of Congress

1958
01:31:22,333 --> 01:31:24,291
who were corporate PAC free.

1959
01:31:24,375 --> 01:31:27,291
And today it's 60. Six-zero.

1960
01:31:27,375 --> 01:31:30,041
So, in one election,

1961
01:31:30,125 --> 01:31:32,959
we've brought in
a whole new cohort

1962
01:31:33,041 --> 01:31:34,792
of members that are saying,

1963
01:31:34,875 --> 01:31:37,041
"We want to do something
different here."

1964
01:31:37,125 --> 01:31:39,333
So we have a proposal
in H.R. 1

1965
01:31:39,417 --> 01:31:41,709
to create a small donor
matching system.

1966
01:31:41,792 --> 01:31:46,041
This is something Larry Lessig
has worked on with me.

1967
01:31:46,709 --> 01:31:49,750
If voters give $50,
or $25,

1968
01:31:49,834 --> 01:31:53,000
a six-to-one match
comes in behind that
from the government

1969
01:31:53,083 --> 01:31:54,875
on those small donations.

1970
01:31:54,959 --> 01:31:57,291
When they go to candidates
who say, "You know what?

1971
01:31:57,375 --> 01:31:59,000
"I'm not gonna take
the big money.

1972
01:31:59,083 --> 01:32:00,750
"I'm not gonna take
the PAC money,

1973
01:32:00,834 --> 01:32:03,000
"and I'm gonna
step into a system

1974
01:32:03,083 --> 01:32:06,166
"where it's the average citizen

1975
01:32:06,250 --> 01:32:08,834
who's the most important
person to me."

1976
01:32:08,917 --> 01:32:11,000
I'm not a career politician.

1977
01:32:11,083 --> 01:32:14,083
Party leaders don't control me,
and they never will.

1978
01:32:14,166 --> 01:32:17,333
Corporations do not
run my campaign.

1979
01:32:17,417 --> 01:32:19,834
Gaetz:
Katie Hill was a new
member of Congress.

1980
01:32:19,917 --> 01:32:23,750
A freshman. She ran
a very different kind of
upstart campaign

1981
01:32:23,834 --> 01:32:26,000
without corporate PAC money,

1982
01:32:26,083 --> 01:32:28,750
and she was on the
Armed Services Committee
with me.

1983
01:32:28,834 --> 01:32:32,667
And then suddenly
Katie Hill was victimized

1984
01:32:32,750 --> 01:32:36,250
by a husband who had
pictures of her,

1985
01:32:36,333 --> 01:32:38,208
uh, where she wasn't
wearing any clothes,

1986
01:32:38,291 --> 01:32:39,542
or doing other weird stuff,

1987
01:32:39,625 --> 01:32:40,875
and he leaked them.

1988
01:32:40,959 --> 01:32:43,625
And she had to resign
from Congress as a result.

1989
01:32:43,709 --> 01:32:46,458
Newscaster:
You said about this situation,
"This is absurd."

1990
01:32:46,542 --> 01:32:48,000
"Who among us
would look perfect

1991
01:32:48,083 --> 01:32:51,375
if every ex leaked every
photo and text?"

1992
01:32:51,458 --> 01:32:54,125
I don't think these issues
should be partisan in nature.

1993
01:32:54,208 --> 01:32:56,000
I think that if someone
is trying to destroy

1994
01:32:56,083 --> 01:32:57,709
one of your coworkers,

1995
01:32:57,792 --> 01:32:59,959
you should sympathize
with the fact that
the only reason

1996
01:33:00,041 --> 01:33:02,041
that this information
is in the public square

1997
01:33:02,125 --> 01:33:05,375
is because someone is committing
the crime of revenge porn.

1998
01:33:05,458 --> 01:33:08,625
So I sent out a tweet
defending President Trump

1999
01:33:08,709 --> 01:33:11,291
and Katie Hill
in the same tweet.

2000
01:33:11,375 --> 01:33:13,291
So, Katie just saw the tweet
and texted me,

2001
01:33:13,375 --> 01:33:14,709
"Thanks for the shout out,

2002
01:33:14,792 --> 01:33:18,041
though I defs disagree
with you on Trump."

2003
01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:20,041
To which I replied,
"It's okay.

2004
01:33:20,125 --> 01:33:22,333
He disagrees with me
about you, too."

2005
01:33:22,417 --> 01:33:26,333
And she wrote back,
"LOL. You're a true
bridge builder."

2006
01:33:27,542 --> 01:33:30,583
Do you think that the way
money is raised here,

2007
01:33:30,667 --> 01:33:32,500
the way the lobbyists
and PACs operate

2008
01:33:32,583 --> 01:33:34,917
hurts us or helps us?
Like, what's the play

2009
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:38,166
if you're a young person
and you're trying to
make it in DC,

2010
01:33:38,250 --> 01:33:40,166
'cause I'm not sure
I've figured it out from

2011
01:33:40,250 --> 01:33:41,875
the fundraising
side of things.

2012
01:33:41,959 --> 01:33:45,083
Well, a lot of my fundraising
was literally in a backlash
to Trump.

2013
01:33:45,166 --> 01:33:46,917
So we're coming from
very different places--

2014
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,542
Yeah, but you weren't
raising money from lobbyists.

2015
01:33:48,625 --> 01:33:50,583
No, that's my point is
that, like, I came--

2016
01:33:50,667 --> 01:33:52,458
I, I was able to raise money
from individuals.

2017
01:33:52,542 --> 01:33:54,375
I didn't take a dime
of corporate money.

2018
01:33:54,458 --> 01:33:56,709
There are more Democrats
that are not taking corporate
PAC money

2019
01:33:56,792 --> 01:33:58,709
-than have ever happened.
-Right. How many are there now?

2020
01:33:58,792 --> 01:34:00,792
I think there, I--
The last I heard,
there were, like,

2021
01:34:00,875 --> 01:34:03,375
-over 65 or something like that.
-I think the only--

2022
01:34:03,458 --> 01:34:05,583
I think there are not many
Republicans who don't do it.

2023
01:34:05,667 --> 01:34:07,625
Right. Are you--
Do you not?

2024
01:34:07,709 --> 01:34:09,458
-Kinda?
-I'm thinking about it.

2025
01:34:09,542 --> 01:34:11,959
I think you'd be the first,
on the Republican side.
I'm pretty sure.

2026
01:34:12,041 --> 01:34:14,959
The first thing that
we have to do
to change things

2027
01:34:15,041 --> 01:34:16,792
is to get money
out of politics.

2028
01:34:16,875 --> 01:34:19,125
And so that's why, you know,

2029
01:34:19,208 --> 01:34:21,792
I feel strongly about
other parts of H.R. 1,
as well,

2030
01:34:21,875 --> 01:34:23,709
including the way
that districts are drawn.

2031
01:34:23,792 --> 01:34:26,834
-I think gerrymandering
needs to be gone.
-I agree.

2032
01:34:26,917 --> 01:34:28,125
-Do you?
-Yes.

2033
01:34:28,208 --> 01:34:30,333
Well, then,
why are you not for H.R. 1?

2034
01:34:30,417 --> 01:34:33,625
I don't like taking money
from the taxpayers

2035
01:34:33,709 --> 01:34:35,333
to fund political campaigns,

2036
01:34:35,417 --> 01:34:38,458
because I think that
that's like welfare
for politicians.

2037
01:34:38,542 --> 01:34:40,000
The reason that I'm for this,

2038
01:34:40,083 --> 01:34:41,959
and again,
I think even a few years ago

2039
01:34:42,041 --> 01:34:43,166
I would have been
differently--

2040
01:34:43,250 --> 01:34:45,083
By the way, I'm a fucking
good fundraiser.

2041
01:34:45,166 --> 01:34:47,000
-Yeah.
-So, like, I don't need

2042
01:34:47,083 --> 01:34:49,000
public financing.
It's not for me.

2043
01:34:49,083 --> 01:34:51,542
It's for people who couldn't
have access to that.

2044
01:34:51,625 --> 01:34:54,500
And you're talking about
people from, like,
North Dakota.

2045
01:34:54,583 --> 01:34:57,667
If you're not willing
to take oil money
from North Dakota,

2046
01:34:57,750 --> 01:34:59,667
like, how are you gonna
have a chance?

2047
01:34:59,750 --> 01:35:01,208
You know, I came from
a political family.

2048
01:35:01,291 --> 01:35:03,250
I had advantages other people
didn't have.

2049
01:35:03,333 --> 01:35:05,125
But, but I do think that,
like,

2050
01:35:05,208 --> 01:35:07,750
if you just say everybody gets
the same amount of cash,

2051
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.

2052
01:35:10,917 --> 01:35:12,959
Because, like,
you have to raise a certain
amount on your own,

2053
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.

2054
01:35:15,959 --> 01:35:19,417
So, you know, I--
So I think you have to show
a certain amount of grit.

2055
01:35:19,500 --> 01:35:21,500
And I was able to jump in
at the right moment

2056
01:35:21,583 --> 01:35:23,875
because women particularly,

2057
01:35:23,959 --> 01:35:27,250
were mobilized around the fact
that fucking Trump had
become President.

2058
01:35:27,333 --> 01:35:31,166
And I, and I was the,
I was the, like, antidote.

2059
01:35:31,250 --> 01:35:33,542
I was the thing that
they saw that, like,
could help

2060
01:35:33,625 --> 01:35:36,709
protect our country
from the guy
you're pals with.

2061
01:35:36,792 --> 01:35:38,208
-But, um--
-He's so great.

2062
01:35:38,291 --> 01:35:39,667
I'll never love
another President again.

2063
01:35:39,750 --> 01:35:41,542
-I love him so much.
-I remember you telling me that

2064
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,

2065
01:35:43,583 --> 01:35:45,083
-and I'm like, is this real?
-I was trying to trigger you.

2066
01:35:45,166 --> 01:35:47,041
Like, do you really
believe this?

2067
01:35:47,125 --> 01:35:49,917
-I do.
-But, um... whatever.
(laughs)

2068
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,375
You know, I, I, I,
I defend flawed people.

2069
01:35:52,458 --> 01:35:54,208
-It's sort of my thing
around here.
-I mean, that's fine.

2070
01:35:54,291 --> 01:35:55,667
I defend flawed people, too.

2071
01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:58,667
I just feel like I--
I'd have to defend
our Constitution.

2072
01:35:58,750 --> 01:36:00,500
But, um...

2073
01:36:11,041 --> 01:36:13,041
Can I get a picture
for the camera?

2074
01:36:13,125 --> 01:36:14,583
Oh, sure. Happy to.

2075
01:36:14,667 --> 01:36:16,250
I actually met you
at Janine's party

2076
01:36:16,333 --> 01:36:18,291
-two weeks ago.
-Yeah, yeah!
That was a great party.

2077
01:36:18,375 --> 01:36:20,458
All right.
Here, I got the selfie arm.

2078
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

2079
01:36:23,417 --> 01:36:25,583
-in our background.
-Sounds good to me.

2080
01:36:25,667 --> 01:36:27,375
Gaetz:
All right, there you go.
Thank you.

2081
01:36:27,458 --> 01:36:28,583
-Good seeing you again.
-Keep up the great work.

2082
01:36:28,667 --> 01:36:30,417
(laughs) Will do.
We need more fighters.

2083
01:36:30,500 --> 01:36:32,291
-Nice seeing you.
-Nice seeing you.

2084
01:36:32,375 --> 01:36:35,792
("Deck the Halls" playing)

2085
01:36:36,583 --> 01:36:38,250
Hey. Good to see you,
my man.

2086
01:36:38,333 --> 01:36:40,041
Thanks for welcoming us again.

2087
01:36:40,125 --> 01:36:42,083
-All right, man.
-(laughing)

2088
01:36:42,166 --> 01:36:44,542
-You're awesome.
-(laughing)

2089
01:36:45,500 --> 01:36:47,667
♪ Don we now
our gay apparel  ♪

2090
01:36:47,750 --> 01:36:49,959
♪ Fa la la, la la la, la la  ♪

2091
01:36:50,041 --> 01:36:52,333
Thank you for what
you're doing every day.
You fight our fight.

2092
01:36:52,417 --> 01:36:55,208
And thanks for giving it
to 'em in those hearings.

2093
01:36:56,917 --> 01:36:59,333
♪ Fa la la la la,
la la, la la  ♪

2094
01:36:59,417 --> 01:37:02,625
This is only the fourth time
that the House judiciary

2095
01:37:02,709 --> 01:37:04,792
has begun considering
articles of impeachment.

2096
01:37:04,875 --> 01:37:07,041
-There's my man.
Cheers to that.
-(glasses clink)

2097
01:37:07,125 --> 01:37:10,041
Chris Cuomo. He's one of
the great adversaries I have.

2098
01:37:10,125 --> 01:37:12,625
♪ Fa la la la la,
la la, la la  ♪

2099
01:37:12,709 --> 01:37:14,792
♪ See the blazing
yule before us  ♪

2100
01:37:14,875 --> 01:37:17,083
♪ Fa la la la la,
la la, la la  ♪

2101
01:37:17,166 --> 01:37:18,417
I watch you
every night on Fox.

2102
01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:20,083
I thought you
were the bomb.

2103
01:37:20,166 --> 01:37:21,667
-Oh, thanks for saying so.
-Literally the bomb.

2104
01:37:21,750 --> 01:37:23,834
♪ Follow me in merry measure  ♪

2105
01:37:23,917 --> 01:37:26,291
♪ Fa la la, la la la,
la la la  ♪

2106
01:37:26,375 --> 01:37:28,417
♪ While I tell of
yuletide treasure  ♪

2107
01:37:28,500 --> 01:37:30,917
♪ Fa la la la la,
la la, la la  ♪

2108
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:35,917
♪ Fa la la la la, la la,
la la  ♪

2109
01:37:37,250 --> 01:37:39,709
Nadler:
Today, we begin consideration

2110
01:37:39,792 --> 01:37:44,000
of two articles
of impeachment against
President Donald J. Trump.

2111
01:37:44,375 --> 01:37:46,667
The first article charges
that the President

2112
01:37:46,750 --> 01:37:48,875
used the powers
of his public office

2113
01:37:48,959 --> 01:37:51,166
to demand that
a foreign government

2114
01:37:51,250 --> 01:37:53,375
attack his political rivals.

2115
01:37:53,458 --> 01:37:56,000
The second article charges
that the President

2116
01:37:56,083 --> 01:38:00,000
obstructed the Congressional
investigation into his conduct.

2117
01:38:00,083 --> 01:38:02,959
Buck:
How will history judge
this impeachment?

2118
01:38:03,041 --> 01:38:04,709
I believe the American people

2119
01:38:04,792 --> 01:38:07,041
will remember this
impeachment effort unkindly,

2120
01:38:07,125 --> 01:38:09,959
instead remembering Democrats
have been resisting,

2121
01:38:10,041 --> 01:38:12,709
and looking for an excuse
to impeach this President

2122
01:38:12,792 --> 01:38:14,834
since the day he was elected.

2123
01:38:14,917 --> 01:38:17,625
I hope you've had your fun.

2124
01:38:17,709 --> 01:38:20,208
Say goodbye to your
majority status,

2125
01:38:20,291 --> 01:38:24,500
and please join us
in January of 2021

2126
01:38:24,583 --> 01:38:28,083
when President Trump
is inaugurated again.

2127
01:38:28,792 --> 01:38:29,959
I yield back.

2128
01:38:30,041 --> 01:38:31,834
Man:
Gentleman yields back.
Mr. Gaetz.

2129
01:38:31,917 --> 01:38:35,375
House Democrats aren't
clarifying that no one's
above the law.

2130
01:38:35,458 --> 01:38:37,083
They're just clarifying
that none of them

2131
01:38:37,166 --> 01:38:39,375
are above partisanship,
and politics.

2132
01:38:39,458 --> 01:38:41,875
The only relevant quid pro quo

2133
01:38:41,959 --> 01:38:43,583
is the American
people's decision

2134
01:38:43,667 --> 01:38:45,750
to send President Trump
to the White House,

2135
01:38:45,834 --> 01:38:49,041
in exchange for Trump's
commitment to support
our workers,

2136
01:38:49,125 --> 01:38:51,667
restore our economy,
defend our troops,

2137
01:38:51,750 --> 01:38:53,250
and drain the swamp.

2138
01:38:53,333 --> 01:38:54,834
(crowd cheering)

2139
01:38:56,166 --> 01:39:00,083
We are going
to Washington, DC,

2140
01:39:00,166 --> 01:39:03,417
and we are going to do what?

2141
01:39:03,500 --> 01:39:06,542
Drain. The. Swamp.

2142
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:11,583
I don't know those gentlemen.

2143
01:39:11,667 --> 01:39:13,834
Newscaster:
Fruman and Parnas
are charged with making

2144
01:39:13,917 --> 01:39:16,041
$325,000

2145
01:39:16,125 --> 01:39:19,250
in illegal straw donations
to a Trump super PAC.

2146
01:39:19,333 --> 01:39:21,041
Newscaster 2:
After making these
political contributions,

2147
01:39:21,125 --> 01:39:22,208
they were setting up
meetings

2148
01:39:22,291 --> 01:39:23,667
in order to push
for the removal

2149
01:39:23,750 --> 01:39:25,417
of Ambassador Yovanovitch.

2150
01:39:25,500 --> 01:39:27,291
Marie Yovanovitch:
Ukrainians who prefer
to play by the old,

2151
01:39:27,375 --> 01:39:30,250
corrupt rules,
sought to remove me.

2152
01:39:34,083 --> 01:39:37,834
Newscaster:
Her removal allowed
someone else to step in--

2153
01:39:37,917 --> 01:39:40,583
a Trump donor
and EU ambassador

2154
01:39:40,667 --> 01:39:42,250
who urged the Ukrainians

2155
01:39:42,333 --> 01:39:44,667
to look into the President's
campaign rival.

2156
01:39:44,750 --> 01:39:48,375
Was there a quid pro quo?
The answer is yes.

2157
01:39:48,458 --> 01:39:51,417
Newscaster:
The hotel mogul
donated a million dollars

2158
01:39:51,500 --> 01:39:53,792
to President Trump's
inaugural committee,

2159
01:39:53,875 --> 01:39:57,500
which helped him secure
his diplomatic post.

2160
01:39:57,583 --> 01:40:00,667
Lessig:
It's astonishing to think that
we went into the 2016 election

2161
01:40:00,750 --> 01:40:03,959
with Donald Trump appearing
to be the anti-corruption
crusader,

2162
01:40:04,041 --> 01:40:06,041
because he had called out
super PACs,

2163
01:40:06,125 --> 01:40:10,250
he had said politicians
were all owned by
the special interests.

2164
01:40:10,333 --> 01:40:13,041
But what's so tragic
about Donald Trump is

2165
01:40:13,125 --> 01:40:16,333
there was an opportunity
for him to change
the status quo.

2166
01:40:16,417 --> 01:40:18,834
But he was never interested
in doing it.

2167
01:40:18,917 --> 01:40:20,542
Crowd (chanting):
Drain the swamp!

2168
01:40:20,625 --> 01:40:23,750
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!

2169
01:40:24,667 --> 01:40:27,000
You know, when I first
heard that term, I hated it.

2170
01:40:27,083 --> 01:40:29,000
I said,
"Oh, that's so hokey."

2171
01:40:29,083 --> 01:40:30,250
I said, "Oh, that's so hokey."

2172
01:40:30,333 --> 01:40:32,417
But I said,
"Look, let's give it a shot."

2173
01:40:32,500 --> 01:40:33,834
I tried to--
The place went crazy.

2174
01:40:33,917 --> 01:40:35,959
This place went crazy.
I said, "Whoa.

2175
01:40:36,041 --> 01:40:37,458
What's this?"
Then I said it again.

2176
01:40:37,542 --> 01:40:39,083
The place went crazy.

2177
01:40:39,166 --> 01:40:42,792
Then I started saying it
like I meant it, right?

2178
01:40:42,875 --> 01:40:44,792
Gaetz:
We will face this
illegitimate impeachment

2179
01:40:44,875 --> 01:40:46,667
with our heads high,
our facts straight,

2180
01:40:46,750 --> 01:40:49,500
and our commitment
to our transformational
President

2181
01:40:49,583 --> 01:40:50,875
deeply intensified.

2182
01:40:50,959 --> 01:40:54,250
We'll see you on the field
in 2020.

2183
01:40:54,333 --> 01:40:56,125
Lessig:
It's not clear it's possible

2184
01:40:56,208 --> 01:41:00,500
to get us beyond that blinder
of hyper-partisanship today.

2185
01:41:00,583 --> 01:41:03,166
There are real differences
we have to work out.

2186
01:41:04,667 --> 01:41:07,875
But Donald Trump
is a short-term problem.

2187
01:41:07,959 --> 01:41:11,792
Whether he gets reelected
or not, he will be gone.

2188
01:41:11,875 --> 01:41:15,208
And I am so
absolutely convinced

2189
01:41:15,291 --> 01:41:19,625
that we have broken
the core institution
of our democracy.

2190
01:41:19,709 --> 01:41:21,458
And at a certain point,

2191
01:41:21,542 --> 01:41:24,959
winning elections in
a broken system
doesn't get you anything.

2192
01:41:25,041 --> 01:41:28,250
It might get you a victory
on election night.

2193
01:41:28,333 --> 01:41:31,417
But it doesn't give you
the capacity to govern.

2194
01:41:31,500 --> 01:41:34,750
And if we can't rise above
the partisan difference,

2195
01:41:34,834 --> 01:41:37,333
country over party,
for the single purpose

2196
01:41:37,417 --> 01:41:40,208
of fixing the institution
of Congress,

2197
01:41:40,291 --> 01:41:43,542
then our government
will just continue to fail.

2198
01:41:46,667 --> 01:41:49,834
Massie:
We're looking at 3,488 pages

2199
01:41:49,917 --> 01:41:52,917
of the National Defense
Authorization Act

2200
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:55,500
for the fiscal year 2020.

2201
01:41:55,583 --> 01:41:57,542
They introduced it at 10 p.m.

2202
01:41:57,625 --> 01:41:59,667
the night before
we had to vote on it.

2203
01:41:59,750 --> 01:42:03,875
The leadership assures you
that you do not need to read
this bill.

2204
01:42:03,959 --> 01:42:06,792
Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy

2205
01:42:06,875 --> 01:42:08,750
each have their own
summary of this bill

2206
01:42:08,834 --> 01:42:10,875
which is only two pages long.

2207
01:42:10,959 --> 01:42:12,458
One page front and back.

2208
01:42:12,542 --> 01:42:13,750
And it says, "Oh,

2209
01:42:13,834 --> 01:42:16,667
there's a pay raise in here
for the military."

2210
01:42:17,667 --> 01:42:19,875
The efforts that
I've undertaken

2211
01:42:19,959 --> 01:42:21,792
with Barbara Lee on
the other side of the aisle

2212
01:42:21,875 --> 01:42:24,250
to curb the wars
that we are in,

2213
01:42:24,333 --> 01:42:26,792
none of that made it
into this NDAA.

2214
01:42:26,875 --> 01:42:29,458
But the NDAA has never failed.

2215
01:42:29,542 --> 01:42:32,208
It's one of those trains that
when it leaves the station,

2216
01:42:32,291 --> 01:42:34,375
it's going to its destination.

2217
01:42:34,458 --> 01:42:37,333
And so, the vast majority
of the money in this bill

2218
01:42:37,417 --> 01:42:41,583
goes to the military
industrial complex,
not the soldiers,

2219
01:42:41,667 --> 01:42:43,917
but because they've got
a pay raise for soldiers

2220
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,917
in this 3,488-page bill,

2221
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:49,208
a lot of people don't
need to read any further.

2222
01:42:49,291 --> 01:42:51,917
Like, "Man,
I can't vote against that."

2223
01:42:56,750 --> 01:42:58,667
Gaetz:
We've just
stepped off the floor

2224
01:42:58,750 --> 01:43:01,125
where the National Defense
Authorization Act passed,

2225
01:43:01,208 --> 01:43:03,375
and pretty bittersweet for me,
you know.

2226
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

2227
01:43:06,083 --> 01:43:08,291
positive things
for our military families
in that bill,

2228
01:43:08,375 --> 01:43:12,083
but it is deeply saddening
that Khanna-Gaetz was left out,

2229
01:43:12,166 --> 01:43:14,458
despite having the support
of the people,

2230
01:43:14,542 --> 01:43:16,000
the support of the
House of Representatives,

2231
01:43:16,083 --> 01:43:18,000
and more votes
for it than against it
in the Senate.

2232
01:43:18,083 --> 01:43:20,166
The bipartisan amendment

2233
01:43:20,250 --> 01:43:22,041
to stop the war in Iran

2234
01:43:22,125 --> 01:43:24,000
stripped by the White House.

2235
01:43:24,083 --> 01:43:25,333
At some time,

2236
01:43:25,417 --> 01:43:27,834
we can't just rhetorically
give standing ovations

2237
01:43:27,917 --> 01:43:30,834
when the President says
we're gonna end endless wars,

2238
01:43:30,917 --> 01:43:33,583
and continue to vote
to fund them.

2239
01:43:33,667 --> 01:43:37,458
I voted no.
The defense budget
was too high in my view,

2240
01:43:37,542 --> 01:43:40,875
and the fact that
they had stripped
the Iran amendment,

2241
01:43:40,959 --> 01:43:43,417
and they had stripped
the Yemen amendment,

2242
01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:44,875
uh, I couldn't vote for it.

2243
01:43:44,959 --> 01:43:47,125
Now, I understand
it was a tough vote for people,

2244
01:43:47,208 --> 01:43:49,500
because they did have
increase for the troops,

2245
01:43:49,583 --> 01:43:51,583
and they did have,
uh, increase

2246
01:43:51,667 --> 01:43:54,333
in terms of parental leave
for federal employees.

2247
01:43:54,417 --> 01:43:58,583
But the fact is,
we shouldn't be having
these kind of votes.

2248
01:43:58,667 --> 01:44:00,750
We should have clean votes
on these issues,

2249
01:44:00,834 --> 01:44:02,041
as opposed to what they do,

2250
01:44:02,125 --> 01:44:04,583
which is force you
to cast a tough vote

2251
01:44:04,667 --> 01:44:08,083
because they lump in
pay increases for the troops

2252
01:44:08,166 --> 01:44:11,500
with, uh, not stopping
the war in Iran.

2253
01:44:11,583 --> 01:44:13,709
Gaetz:
I thought there was more
good than bad in the bill,

2254
01:44:13,792 --> 01:44:16,417
and so I voted for it,
but I also can understand why

2255
01:44:16,500 --> 01:44:18,792
someone would,
uh, would take
a different position,

2256
01:44:18,875 --> 01:44:20,917
because there's just
so much more that,

2257
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:22,583
that should have
occurred here

2258
01:44:22,667 --> 01:44:26,750
to reflect the overwhelming
will of the people
in this country.

2259
01:44:26,834 --> 01:44:30,625
You know, anytime you see
the votes line up with
the people,

2260
01:44:30,709 --> 01:44:32,917
and yet the outcome
doesn't happen,

2261
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,792
it is a reflection of
a broken system.

2262
01:44:38,125 --> 01:44:40,291
-Man 1: Are you
Congressman Gaetz?
-Yeah.

2263
01:44:40,375 --> 01:44:43,959
You have got be kidding me
with this defense of Trump.

2264
01:44:44,208 --> 01:44:46,625
-The guy used taxpayer money--
-I'm not kidding at all, man.

2265
01:44:46,709 --> 01:44:49,125
-Man 2: Don't listen to him.
-Man 1: No, no, no, no,
Wait a second.

2266
01:44:49,208 --> 01:44:52,041
-I'm an attorney--
-Man 3: We're with you,
Congressman Gaetz.

2267
01:44:52,125 --> 01:44:54,208
Don't listen to him.
The American people
are with you.

2268
01:44:54,291 --> 01:44:55,709
Man 2:
We need more people
like you in Congress.

2269
01:44:55,792 --> 01:44:57,458
Man 3:
The American people
are with you, sir.

2270
01:44:57,542 --> 01:45:01,041
Man 1: You don't think
that this man used
taxpayer money

2271
01:45:01,125 --> 01:45:05,583
to try to front
the Ukrainian government?

2272
01:45:05,667 --> 01:45:08,959
-To try to engage
the Biden administration?
-Man 3: What about Joe Biden?

2273
01:45:09,041 --> 01:45:10,375
What about Joe Biden?

2274
01:45:10,458 --> 01:45:12,542
Man 1:
Answer the question!

2275
01:45:13,250 --> 01:45:16,750
♪

2276
01:45:16,834 --> 01:45:19,166
Khanna:
I think what frustrates
people today is,

2277
01:45:19,250 --> 01:45:22,667
it seems that we're unable
to find a sense of,

2278
01:45:22,750 --> 01:45:25,041
what can we do together?

2279
01:45:25,375 --> 01:45:26,834
But at our best,

2280
01:45:26,917 --> 01:45:29,625
our country has risen
to the challenge

2281
01:45:29,709 --> 01:45:32,417
of finding common purpose,
or the common good.

2282
01:45:33,542 --> 01:45:36,208
We've done it when
we have defeated tyranny

2283
01:45:36,291 --> 01:45:37,959
in World War II,

2284
01:45:38,041 --> 01:45:41,166
when we've helped establish
the international order.

2285
01:45:41,250 --> 01:45:44,792
We've done it in building
the interstate highways,

2286
01:45:44,875 --> 01:45:47,125
winning the Cold War,

2287
01:45:47,208 --> 01:45:48,834
inventing the internet,

2288
01:45:48,917 --> 01:45:51,250
and sending a man to the moon.

2289
01:45:52,083 --> 01:45:54,333
Our country has done
extraordinary things,

2290
01:45:54,417 --> 01:45:58,333
and most of those
extraordinary achievements
have been bipartisan.

2291
01:45:58,417 --> 01:46:01,834
So the idea that we can't
rise to the occasion again

2292
01:46:01,917 --> 01:46:04,208
defies American history.

2293
01:46:06,125 --> 01:46:08,250
Lessig:
I don't know how to say this

2294
01:46:08,333 --> 01:46:10,083
as strongly as I feel it.

2295
01:46:11,125 --> 01:46:15,333
Because, you know,
I'm this sappy patriot,

2296
01:46:15,417 --> 01:46:18,333
who deeply loves
the traditions of our country.

2297
01:46:18,417 --> 01:46:20,291
Not that there aren't
things to criticize,

2298
01:46:20,375 --> 01:46:22,542
and I spend most of my time
finding how to criticize them,

2299
01:46:22,625 --> 01:46:24,750
but the dream, the ideals,

2300
01:46:24,834 --> 01:46:26,542
of this republic,

2301
01:46:26,625 --> 01:46:28,875
are things we all
should be proud of.

2302
01:46:28,959 --> 01:46:32,792
And we have to find a way
to convince people
to fix it,

2303
01:46:32,875 --> 01:46:36,041
because it's not as if
there aren't hard problems

2304
01:46:36,125 --> 01:46:39,000
in the future
we need to solve.

2305
01:46:39,083 --> 01:46:42,166
Everybody's so obsessed
in deciding what we should do,

2306
01:46:42,250 --> 01:46:44,041
as if we can do something.

2307
01:46:44,125 --> 01:46:47,291
Everybody's arguing about,
you know, should we have
single-payer health care,

2308
01:46:47,375 --> 01:46:48,875
or climate change legislation,

2309
01:46:48,959 --> 01:46:52,959
as if it's possible
to get those things done.

2310
01:46:53,041 --> 01:46:56,250
None of these issues
can be addressed sensibly

2311
01:46:56,333 --> 01:46:59,500
until we address the deep
corruption inside of
our government.

2312
01:47:00,959 --> 01:47:02,625
Sarbanes:
There are people
in the country,

2313
01:47:02,709 --> 01:47:05,125
and I can understand it,
I relate to it,

2314
01:47:05,208 --> 01:47:07,709
who are so angry
at Washington

2315
01:47:07,792 --> 01:47:11,458
that just the simple act
of handing someone
a baseball bat

2316
01:47:11,542 --> 01:47:13,417
and saying go up there
and poof...

2317
01:47:13,500 --> 01:47:15,333
shake things up.

2318
01:47:15,417 --> 01:47:17,458
gives them a certain
amount of satisfaction.

2319
01:47:17,542 --> 01:47:19,583
I, I understand that.

2320
01:47:19,667 --> 01:47:23,083
And what we're trying to do
with our reforms is say

2321
01:47:23,166 --> 01:47:24,709
these can be
as consequential

2322
01:47:24,792 --> 01:47:26,417
as any baseball bat
could ever be.

2323
01:47:26,500 --> 01:47:31,083
Because instead of tearing
your democracy down

2324
01:47:31,166 --> 01:47:33,250
to satisfy your anger,

2325
01:47:33,333 --> 01:47:34,750
we're gonna build it up,

2326
01:47:34,834 --> 01:47:38,208
and we're gonna put you
right back in the middle of it.

2327
01:47:38,291 --> 01:47:40,834
Buck:
There is no incentive
for leadership

2328
01:47:40,917 --> 01:47:44,917
to reduce its own power
by reforming Congress.

2329
01:47:45,041 --> 01:47:49,834
But Congress will react
when the people stand up
and demand action.

2330
01:47:51,250 --> 01:47:55,125
Massie:
The force than runs everything
is the electorate.

2331
01:47:55,208 --> 01:47:57,917
Everybody up here
can lose an election.

2332
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:00,417
It doesn't matter
how powerful you are.

2333
01:48:00,500 --> 01:48:03,917
So, the final arbiters
of who holds power here

2334
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:07,542
are still the voters back home.

2335
01:48:07,625 --> 01:48:10,250
Gaetz:
So many of the challenges
that are impacting our country

2336
01:48:10,333 --> 01:48:14,166
aren't going to impact
Republicans and Democrats
differently.

2337
01:48:14,250 --> 01:48:16,792
They're going to impact
us all the same.

2338
01:48:16,875 --> 01:48:19,166
And so I think
the thing we can do

2339
01:48:19,250 --> 01:48:21,291
to drain the swamp the most

2340
01:48:21,375 --> 01:48:24,125
would be to just achieve
some common understanding

2341
01:48:24,208 --> 01:48:27,000
that on a lot of this stuff,
we are in the same rowboat.

2342
01:48:27,083 --> 01:48:29,166
And if we're rowing
different directions
the whole time,

2343
01:48:29,250 --> 01:48:31,500
we're just gonna spin
on the top of the water.

2344
01:48:31,583 --> 01:48:35,458
♪

2345
01:48:35,542 --> 01:48:37,166
Reporter:
In 230 years,

2346
01:48:37,250 --> 01:48:40,000
since the
US House of Representatives
began its work,

2347
01:48:40,083 --> 01:48:43,750
only twice has it launched
the debate we will
witness today.

2348
01:48:43,834 --> 01:48:45,667
Democrats will bring
to the full House

2349
01:48:45,750 --> 01:48:48,375
two articles of impeachment
against President Trump.

2350
01:48:48,917 --> 01:48:53,208
("Impeach the President"
by The Honey Drippers playing)

2351
01:48:55,667 --> 01:48:58,500
♪ Some people say
that he's guilty  ♪

2352
01:48:58,583 --> 01:49:00,667
♪ That he's guilty  ♪

2353
01:49:00,750 --> 01:49:03,500
♪ Some people say
I don't know  ♪

2354
01:49:03,583 --> 01:49:05,250
♪ I don't know  ♪

2355
01:49:05,333 --> 01:49:08,375
♪ Some people say
give him a chance  ♪

2356
01:49:08,458 --> 01:49:10,041
♪ Give him a chance  ♪

2357
01:49:10,125 --> 01:49:13,375
♪ Aw, some people say
wait till they convict him  ♪

2358
01:49:13,458 --> 01:49:14,875
♪ Till they convict him  ♪

2359
01:49:14,959 --> 01:49:16,875
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2360
01:49:16,959 --> 01:49:19,375
♪ Impeach
the President  ♪

2361
01:49:19,458 --> 01:49:21,542
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2362
01:49:21,625 --> 01:49:24,125
Woman 1:
Matt Gaetz,
country over party.

2363
01:49:24,208 --> 01:49:26,041
Come on, where's your soul?

2364
01:49:26,125 --> 01:49:27,625
Right here.

2365
01:49:27,709 --> 01:49:31,083
Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz...

2366
01:49:31,166 --> 01:49:34,959
Save our country.
You could be a hero, dude.

2367
01:49:35,041 --> 01:49:38,000
-You could be a hero.
-Woman 2: That's the
funny thing. He is a hero.

2368
01:49:38,083 --> 01:49:40,250
You could stand up
for our country.

2369
01:49:40,333 --> 01:49:43,583
-The Constitution, dude.
-Woman 3: Go back to Russia!

2370
01:49:43,667 --> 01:49:47,125
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
You people are something.

2371
01:49:47,208 --> 01:49:49,875
Come on, Matt.
You can do it!
I believe in you.

2372
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,834
Go, Matt, go! Truth! Truth!

2373
01:49:53,375 --> 01:49:54,750
Truth, Matt!

2374
01:49:54,834 --> 01:49:57,291
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2375
01:49:57,375 --> 01:49:59,834
♪ Aw nah,
we can't do that, man ♪

2376
01:49:59,917 --> 01:50:02,250
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2377
01:50:02,333 --> 01:50:04,458
♪ Impeach
the President  ♪

2378
01:50:04,542 --> 01:50:07,000
Article one is adopted.

2379
01:50:07,083 --> 01:50:09,333
♪

2380
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,166
Mitch McConnell:
I'm coordinating with
White House counsel.

2381
01:50:14,250 --> 01:50:16,041
There will be
no difference between

2382
01:50:16,125 --> 01:50:18,250
the President's position
and our position.

2383
01:50:18,333 --> 01:50:20,083
We all know how it's gonna end.

2384
01:50:20,166 --> 01:50:21,583
There is no chance

2385
01:50:21,667 --> 01:50:24,000
the President's gonna be
removed from office.

2386
01:50:25,041 --> 01:50:27,375
♪ There's a lot of things  ♪

2387
01:50:27,458 --> 01:50:30,583
♪ That we don't know about  ♪

2388
01:50:30,667 --> 01:50:33,125
Khanna:
The President should not have
taken an offensive action

2389
01:50:33,208 --> 01:50:35,834
against Iran without
coming to Congress,

2390
01:50:35,917 --> 01:50:38,625
and this could get us into
another Middle East war

2391
01:50:38,709 --> 01:50:40,625
where American lives
are at risk,

2392
01:50:40,709 --> 01:50:42,792
and trillions of dollars
are wasted.

2393
01:50:42,875 --> 01:50:45,125
♪

2394
01:50:45,208 --> 01:50:47,500
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2395
01:50:47,583 --> 01:50:50,125
♪ Impeach
the President  ♪

2396
01:50:50,208 --> 01:50:52,000
♪ Impeach the President  ♪

2397
01:50:52,083 --> 01:50:54,166
Massie:
An hour before I went
to vote on that,

2398
01:50:54,250 --> 01:50:55,959
I got a call from
the President,

2399
01:50:56,041 --> 01:50:59,125
and he wanted me to vote
with the party,

2400
01:50:59,208 --> 01:51:02,625
or I was gonna get
a primary challenge.

2401
01:51:02,709 --> 01:51:05,667
And sure enough,
within 12 hours of voting

2402
01:51:05,750 --> 01:51:07,959
the way that I felt
I should vote,

2403
01:51:08,041 --> 01:51:09,834
I got a primary opponent.

2404
01:51:09,917 --> 01:51:13,333
And now,
the next 90 days of my life

2405
01:51:13,417 --> 01:51:15,333
are gonna be a sort of hell

2406
01:51:15,417 --> 01:51:17,583
where I have to go do
what I hate to do

2407
01:51:17,667 --> 01:51:19,834
which is get on the phone,
grovel,

2408
01:51:19,917 --> 01:51:22,291
raise money,
and try to beat this guy.

2409
01:51:22,375 --> 01:51:24,667
And I can trace it all back
to that one vote.

2410
01:51:24,750 --> 01:51:26,083
Interviewer:
Do you regret your vote?

2411
01:51:26,166 --> 01:51:28,625
I don't regret that vote at all.
I told the President,

2412
01:51:28,709 --> 01:51:32,000
"Look, if the worst thing that
happens to me for this vote

2413
01:51:32,083 --> 01:51:35,208
"is I have to go back
to my farm and live out
my days,

2414
01:51:35,291 --> 01:51:37,291
I'm okay with that!"

2415
01:51:37,917 --> 01:51:40,750
♪

2416
01:51:43,875 --> 01:51:46,333
Buck:
Taking on President Trump
is unwise.

2417
01:51:46,417 --> 01:51:50,000
And President Trump
has no problem doing
a touchdown dance

2418
01:51:50,083 --> 01:51:52,667
every time a Republican
critic loses.

2419
01:51:52,750 --> 01:51:55,375
And so he reinforces the idea

2420
01:51:55,458 --> 01:51:57,959
that it is a bad idea
to take him on.

2421
01:51:58,041 --> 01:52:02,125
♪

2422
01:52:03,458 --> 01:52:05,166
Gaetz:
I will never again

2423
01:52:05,250 --> 01:52:09,250
accept a donation from
a federal political action
committee.

2424
01:52:09,333 --> 01:52:10,792
Not one red cent.

2425
01:52:10,875 --> 01:52:15,166
The American people
are my one and only
special interest.

2426
01:52:15,750 --> 01:52:18,375
(cheering and applause)

2427
01:52:18,458 --> 01:52:19,792
Interviewer:
How do you feel?

2428
01:52:19,875 --> 01:52:22,875
I feel great, man.
Feel relieved.
Feel like, uh...

2429
01:52:22,959 --> 01:52:25,208
Just like a tremendous weight
has been lifted.

2430
01:52:25,291 --> 01:52:27,208
Don't know what
it's gonna mean, but

2431
01:52:27,291 --> 01:52:30,083
I tell you, it's one of
my best days in Congress.

2432
01:52:30,166 --> 01:52:34,291
♪

2433
01:52:59,667 --> 01:53:03,041
(dramatic orchestral
music playing)

2434
01:53:04,917 --> 01:53:10,000
♪