GOP Gets Rude Awakening on House Floor as War Blows Up!!

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0:59Ben Meiselas:Welcome back Republicans to the house of representatives. You remember that's the place where you're supposed to work when you're elected to Congress. I know you've been taking vacations at Mar-a-Lago or indoor row while the American people are suffering right now as Americans can't afford homes while an unlawful war is being waged in Iran while people are being screwed over here in the United States. by Trump and his Epstein class, but time to get back to work, MAGA Republicans. And boy, oh boy, did MAGA Republicans get a rude awakening on the House floor when they tested out their Mar-a-Lago talking points and Democrats just let them have it.

1:42Ben Meiselas:This is what happens when you become so disconnected from the people, when you're hanging out with Donald Trump talking about which type of marble or onyx do you want in the golden ballroom versus how can we deliver healthcare to the American people? How can we help people get great educations? How can we help people get jobs with dignity where they can afford homes? Yeah, that ain't what you're talking about at the Mar-a-Lago Country Club, is it? So watch what goes down where you have people like MAGA Republican Congresswoman Virginia Fox. And she's like, I hear a lot of Democrats talking about the fact that wealthy people don't pay all that much taxes.

2:24Ben Meiselas:But when you think about it, it's really the working class people who are screwing us all over because on the whole, they pay less taxes than the wealthy people. Even when we give the wealthy people loopholes, they still end up paying So it's the workers who are really the ones getting rich and making off like bandits. If you're like, Ben, you're telling me a MAGA Republican is basically saying that. And I'm telling you, it's a MAGA Republican. And I'll say, play the dang clip. Let's play it. I wasn't going to say anything during one minute today. but I really get irritated when people stand up on this floor and tell half-truths to the American people.

3:12One of our colleagues just talked about the fact that wealthy people pay small percentages of their income on taxes. But what he didn't say is they pay over 50 % of all the taxes paid in this country and that working class people don't pay nearly as much as they do. So don't buy the empty rhetoric of congressional Democrats.

3:38Ben Meiselas:Oh, there you have it. Then MAGA Republican Virginia Fox is like, look, look, look, okay. I understand it. Yeah, gas jumped a little bit in the last month. You know, we're in a war right now, but you know what? It is half the price, right? or maybe even less than half the price now as when Biden was in office, wasn't it? No, I think Biden, when Biden left, the average was$3.11. Now it's approaching$4. You just can't make up everything and attack Biden in every one of your sentences. Donald Trump's in office. Right now, things are far less affordable. Under Biden, things were being brought under control based on the mess and massacre Donald Trump left the first time.

4:25Ben Meiselas:any event, here's MAGA Republican Virginia Fox. Here, play this clip. Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will point out to my colleague that, yes, gas jumped in the last month, but it's still a lot less expensive than it was under President Biden. Thankfully, under President Trump, gas prices were cut almost in half. Let's talk about Democratic Congress member McGovern, because when he gets on that House floor, it's like watching an all-star basketball player in their prime slam dunk on these MAGA fools. So McGovern hears what Virginia Fox is saying, and he's like, really? Those are the talking points you're going with?

5:17Ben Meiselas:And so he goes, I heard the gentle lady, Ms. Fox, Congresswoman Fox, I heard her speech saying that these tax cuts for the rich are really actually unfair for the rich because they still pay more and that the workers are the ones who are screwing over everybody. Watch what Congress member, Democratic Congress member McGovern says. Here, play this clip. and i heard the general lady's one minute speech uh before we got into this debate in which she kind of defended the tax cuts for the rich and basically said we don't you know we have a spending problem in this country okay we have a spending problem we're spending a billion dollars a day on a reckless illegal war in iran and nobody on the other side seems to give a damn about that We don't have money to help make sure that we can lower energy costs for senior citizens.

6:13We don't have money to make sure our kids get nutritious breakfasts and lunches in schools. We don't have money for anything, child care, elder care, for our veterans, for our health care in general. We're told we don't have the money. But no debate, no concern about a billion dollars a day on Iran. Come on. I mean, enough is enough. The point, the focus of Congress, the focus of government should be about helping people, not screwing them over, not hurting them.

6:51Ben Meiselas:And he's not done yet. He goes, OK, I also heard her say that under Donald Trump, we're doing better than Biden in terms of gas prices. I have a little something, Virginia Fox, you may want to know about. It's called facts. You want to hear them here? Watch this. Let's play it. You know, she said that, you know, that Trump is doing better than Biden in terms of gas prices. Well, when Biden left office, the average gallon of gas was three dollars and eleven cents. It's now close to three eighty. It's creeping up nearly four dollars. I mean, that's just the reality. You can people can Google that.

7:32Don't don't take my word where you can you can Google it. And the other fact is that, if I remember correctly, Donald Trump said that when he became president, he and Republicans were lower costs on day one. Everything would go down. What a crock. Everything's gone up. Everything has skyrocketed. Everything gassed. You know, the rent, price of food, everything has gone way up.

7:57Ben Meiselas:More from Congress Member McGovern right here. And he's like, you know what? Come down here. Donald, Golden Ballroom, Mar-a-Lago, Epstein class, grotesque, vile creatures. He doesn't say that I said that, but he meant that. Come here and let's speak. Speak to your constituents. Explain why Donald Trump, Mega Mike, you chicken. Come here, Mega Mike, balk, balk, Mega Mike. Come here on the House floor and explain to your constituents why it is that Donald Trump right now is doing fundraisers with photos of the dignified transfer in Dover, Delaware, with Trump wearing a campaign hat. He refused to take off his hat, his cap during the dignified transfer.

8:44Ben Meiselas:And now we learned why he wanted photos of himself wearing the campaign merch that he can sell in ads to raise money off of. So, Maga Mike, why don't you, why don't we, why don't we do what they do in parliament in Canada or in the UK. But in Canada, it's pretty, you know, it's pretty aggressive. I like what they do in Canada. Go show up like in the House of Commons and duke it out. But these MAGAs are too scared to do that. Here play this clip. They said they would tell the truth. Instead, they protect the Epstein elites and peddle distraction after distraction after distraction, hoping it'll all go away.

9:22And at the center of it all is a president so hollow, so unwell, and so morally lost that he is fundraising off of dead American troops. I can't believe I'm saying that sentence out loud. The president of the United States went to a dignified transfer of remain ceremony. He refused to take off his ball cap. and then he took a photo of himself standing behind an American service member coming home from war in the Middle East in a casket and he slapped it on a fundraising email asking people to donate money to his campaign. Let me say that again. The president used a dead American service member as a photo op for his campaign fundraising and when he was asked about it yesterday, he said he saw nothing wrong with that.

10:18Can you imagine if Bill Clinton had done that or Barack Obama or Joe Biden? My Republican colleagues, their heads would explode. You know, and that's what happened after Joe Biden checked his watch during one of these ceremonies. Yet not a word after this disrespectful president dishonored our troops in the most outrageous way by using them as a prop for his own personal benefit. it. I challenge any Republican, any single one, to come down here and defend this. Come down here and explain to your constituents why the leader of your party is fundraising off of dead American service members. I think it is one of the most disrespectful, inappropriate, awful things I have ever, ever seen in all my time in Congress.

11:10And I doubt a single Republican will have the guts to say it was wrong. The American people deserve a hell of a lot better than this chaos and cruelty. And they deserve a better, they deserve better than this president. They deserve better than this Republican majority. They deserve elected officials who care about them, who want to fight to lower the cost of living, who want to make their lives better and easier and more manageable. That's not what's happening here. I mean, with all that is going on, you know, a billion dollars a day on a reckless illegal war in iran gas prices creeping up to nearly four dollars a gallon the price of groceries going up because of these stupid tariffs that my friends don't want to deal with i go on and on and on about how the republican policies are making life more miserable for average americans with all that's going on the gentleman's time to come down here i urge a no vote on this rule.

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14:15Ben Meiselas:More from Congress member McGovern here talking about just the sheer amount of money that Donald Trump is burning through. Here, play this clip. But they're not talking about any of that. They keep bringing distraction after distraction to the House floor. bills meant to waste time, divide people, and shift the blame from billionaires onto immigrants. That's their whole playbook. Don't look over here at Epstein elites and billionaire corporations who are ripping us off, breaking the law, and getting away with it. No, no, no. Blame the immigrants. Hey, blame trans kids. Blame Joe Biden. Blame everybody but the president and his billionaire buddies.

14:57It's getting old. And I, for one, am sick and tired of it. this president and my friends on the other side who are refusing to rein him in because they're all afraid of him is burning a billion dollars a day of american taxpayer money on a war halfway around the world one billion dollars a day let me repeat that one billion dollars a day no money no more money to help seniors eat their homes they say we don't have it no money to help kids get healthy breakfast in school. No money to restore SNAP benefits to help seniors and veterans afford groceries. No more money to help working families breathe easier or sleep better at night.

15:41I'm just sick and tired of this, Mr. Speaker. There's always money for war. There's always money for another tax break for multimillionaires, billionaires and giant corporations. There's always time to debate silly bills that try to shift the blame onto immigrants and trans kids. But there's never the time. There's never the time or the money to address the real and pressing issues that the American people are begging, begging Republicans to help them with. This is an embarrassing debate. This is an embarrassing moment for this Congress.

16:18Ben Meiselas:You know, a big development yesterday as well was that this guy by the name of Kent, You know, this guy, he was the head of counterterrorism. He was Tulsi Gabbard's number two, Joe Kent, right wing extremist, as MAGA as it can be. He resigns from the Trump regime. He goes, I can't support this Iran war. I thought our whole thing is we're against these never ending wars. Kent was a combat veteran. He served like 11 different kind of combat missions. His wife, he's a gold star husband. and his wife was tragically killed in, I believe it was Syria, in a terrorist attack in 2019. But this guy has a real kind of extreme right-wing extremist view.

17:05Ben Meiselas:So I'm not trying to make any like, I'm not trying to hoist this guy up like he's like a great guy, but he resigned very publicly. His resignation letter is like going to get like 100 million views on Twitter and X. People in MAGA like him, but people in MAGA are also, you know, whatever. Well, I'll try to be inclusive about MAGA. Anyway, so here Laura Ingram try it. No, I guess not. I don't know. Here's what Laura Ingram says about Joe Kent. And she's like, oh, he's a liberal darling now. Joe Kent, the new liberal Joe Kent, the liberal darling. Dude's the most extreme right-wing guy there is.

17:43Ben Meiselas:When you lose Joe Kent, MAGA is just the party right now of Trump, Mark Levin, Lindsey Graham and Netanyahu. Like that's that's your posse. Like that's like that's your crew. Here play this clip. But now, well, Joe Kent is the liberal darling du jour. And it's all because he's turning on Donald Trump. Now, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center is resigning over the Iran war. But you see how they're what they're trying to do now with state regime media, because they see what's going on on the House floor. So then they bring on Dan Bongino, and Dan Bongino's out there saying, oh, I've seen so many security briefings.

18:27Ben Meiselas:Joe Kent doesn't know what he's talking about here. Play this clip. You're going to see this with Joe Kent in the coming days. Listen, Joe's decorated history of service is beyond reproach, and his sacrifice with his family is just unspeakable. I don't even like to think about it. His wife, who passed over, was killed. yeah i mean uh you know there was her name is emblazoned on a plaque in a facility i can't really talk about and when you read the story there it's a tough story to read but you know again as i've said with other yeah the sacrifice is is beyond reproach that doesn't mean that this current opinion um is is any more fact-based because it's not i'm really sorry laura i mean i read probably a lot more intelligence than he did uh because they don't have a law enforcement function, the National Counterterrorism Center.

19:15They're an analytical clearinghouse. They're valuable. However, I had access to just about everything. And how you could come to the conclusion that the Israelis did it and there was no imminent threat here? Really? What about the anti-ship ballistic missiles, the drone program, 440 kilograms of 60 percent enriched nuclear material, their constant death to America chance. I mean, you know, that's called evidence in some limited circles. We call that, you know, a clue. I mean, I don't know what point you thought this wasn't an imminent threat after you've read a lot of the stuff I read. And by the way, that's just the open store stuff we can talk about on the air.

19:55I promise you, the president, I promise you, has a bevy of material that if he could do the men in black thing and erase your mind tomorrow, if he told you right now, you would come to the imminent direct conclusion in a snap.

20:08Ben Meiselas:Okay. State regime media trying to like what, just change the narrative or what we saw on the House floor. Then they bring on Lindsey Graham on Sean Hannity. And Lindsey Graham again is like to Joe Kent, who lost his wife in Syria. What are you doing, man? What are you doing? Here, play this clip. Don't believe that you're wrong. To my friend, Joe Kent, who's a decorated war veteran who lost his wife in Syria. What are you doing? You're giving aid and comfort to a lie. There was an imminent threat. How much more imminent could you be within two weeks having enough material to make 10 bombs? How close could you come?

20:48Not much.

20:50Ben Meiselas:And then finally, Lindsey Graham's closing message is that we owe our security in the United States to Israel. If it wasn't for Israel, we would be less safe in the United States. That's what Lindsey Graham says here. Play this clip. Well, that's a bunch of BS. If it weren't for Israel, we'd be less safe. Israel has no choice to stop radical Islam from destroying it. I hope the American people understand we have no choice. You may be tired of fighting them, but they're not tired of fighting you. The only reason they haven't killed more Americans than they have radical Islam is we stop them before they get here.

21:27If they had weapons-grade material, they would turn it into a bomb. If they had a bomb, they would use it because they're religious Nazis. Those who got Hitler wrong, you're doing the same thing in 2026. Alright, well there you have it everybody.

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