MAGA Mike Shuts Down House over Midterm Disaster!!

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1:08Ben Meiselas:So Congress has stood adjourned now for over two weeks, not in session while the United States has engaged in this horrific and disastrous war in Iran, the failed negotiations in Islamabad. And now we're seeing what MAGA Mike Johnson has actually been doing over the past two weeks. And folks, it is sick. Some video footage that the Midas Touch Network was able to obtain emerged. It's MAGA Mike Johnson speaking in Virginia as the MAGA Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting in favor of the new maps, the new congressional districts that were put in place in Virginia. There's a referendum that the people have to vote on in response to Donald Trump starting in Texas, but all the gerrymandering that Donald Trump did, Democrats fought back.

2:05Ben Meiselas:And so what MAGA Mike Johnson is using these two weeks for, we see it right here. He's in Virginia with the former Virginia Governor Youngkin. And MAGA Mike Johnson's out there telling people, you know, you got to vote against this gerrymandering. How dare the Democrats gerrymander? This is not what our constitution was based on. And so the reason that MAGA Mike Johnson has shut down Congress now for two weeks is to engage in cheap stunts like this. And then MAGA Mike Johnson, I mean, it's fairly pathetic. I'll show you the video. He's like, please, please, we need to win in the midterms because the Democrats, they're going to impeach Donald Trump and they're going to investigate Donald Trump and they're going to do all of these woke things and something about women, men, sports, woke this, woke that.

2:59Ben Meiselas:He's like, by the way, in front of a crowd of like 12 people showed up to watch him, the former governor, and to watch like the entire Virginia congressional delegation, like nobody is there. I want you to watch as Maga Mike here, you know, start saying, they're going to impeach Donald Trump if you don't help us. This is so utterly pathetic. Let's play this clip right here. They would do exactly the opposite if they took the majority back in the house. Heaven forbid, you know that they would impeach the president in the first week of the new Congress in January, but it would get far worse than that because they would roll the markets, they would turn all the committees of Congress into investigative bodies.

3:35They would go into lawfare again. All the woke, crazy agenda stuff that they tried to waste upon the country and that the country rejected in 2024, they would bring it right back. And they would impeach the president, reopen the borders. They would return men to women's locker rooms and girls' sports, trans surgeries for everybody, as the president says, right, without credit consent. All of the crazy stuff that the American people rejected, they want to bring it back.

3:59Ben Meiselas:More from MAGA Mike Johnson as he starts talking about how unfair it is that Democrats are now gerrymandering Virginia. And this is so unfair, MAGA Mike says, because the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is so slim. And how could the Democrats or the gerrymandering party? Hey, MAGA Mike, the Democrats were the ones who put forward a law. Remember those things called laws, right? They put forward a bill that they wanted to turn into a law that MAGA Republicans were against to ban political gerrymandering, period, full stop. You all voted against that. And then your plan with Trump was to gerrymander Texas to pick up five seats.

4:43Ben Meiselas:And then starting with Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in California, Democrats fought back. And now they're fighting back in Virginia. And now you're whining in front of this crowd of like 12 people. Here, play this clip right here. One of the smallest margins in U.S. history. Right now, we had a special election last Tuesday. So I have an embarrassment of riches, guys. We have a two-vote margin right now. We were down to one, okay? We have got to get every single one of these patriots on this state reelected in November. And I know you're committed to help us get that done. But that's why the eyes of America were upon your state right now.

5:18And I'm telling you what you already know, the obvious thing. The eyes of America are upon you because you have the power in your hands. This is a very serious deal. You have the power to say no to this totally scandalous, unlawful, unconstitutional Democrat gerrymandering scheme that they're trying to push upon this state. You get to say no.

5:40Ben Meiselas:And then Maga Mike is like, they're all Marxist. The Democrats are a bunch of Marxists. Play this clip. You also have the power to say no to Abigail Spanberger's charade. Okay, can I call it something charitable, Governor? She talks like a moderate and she governs like a Marxist. I mean, this is serious stuff. And you have the power to say no to this insurgent left Democrat party that is trying to take over the U.S. Congress. How many of you know this is not your father's Democrat party? They're open Marxists. They believe in everything that is the opposite of what made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

6:20You have another very important power. You have the power to protect fair maps in Virginia and to protect truly the entire House Republican majority in the Congress. That's in your hands right now. This is big stuff.

6:34Ben Meiselas:And then as Donald Trump is posting AI images of himself as Jesus and Donald Trump posting like fake information that he saved Ed McMahon's home in 2008, which is like a totally fake and made up story or Donald Trump talking about blockading all of the Persian Gulf. MAGA Mike has the audacity to say, and these Democrats, they're crazy, man. They're a bunch of crazy people. I mean, like the level of sociopath derangement of these MAGAs. They're like, the Democrats are the crazy ones. Y 'all are literally a bunch of nutcases. Like legitimately the craziest human beings around right now is like all of you MAGA weirdos.

7:22Ben Meiselas:But go ahead here, Play this clip of Meg and Mike. This is not a contract with America election cycle. You guys did that. You signed a contract with America in 2024. You were fulfilling those promises. His promise is made, promises kept. He said, Mike, this isn't a contract with America election. This is a contrast for America. It is a contrast between Republicans' return to common sense and the Democrats' radical woke agenda. So to put it bluntly, it's a contrast between common sense and crazy. Okay, crazy. You remember the president of the State of the Union when he just kind of went off script a couple of times?

8:03I'm sitting behind them enjoying the show. And at one point, he looked over to the Democrats and he said, you're crazy. They are. We all applauded. I know you stood up in your living rooms and said, yes, amen. Because that's what this is. It's not your father's Democrat party. and the state should not be higher because of that.

8:22Ben Meiselas:And I'll just show you what was going on before that. You had Glenn Youngkin right here, the former governor of Virginia, is like, we need to vote no on this gerrymandering. This is Democrat gerrymandering. This is very, very, very unfair. Here, play this clip. Vote no. It's that simple. Vote no against gerrymandering. Vote no against being silenced. First, vote no against being lied to. Vote no and demonstrate to the United States of America that Virginians lead we do not follow. Now look, this is super important. If you used Medicare.gov to get Medicare Advantage plan information, you may want to double check your plan.

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10:39Ben Meiselas:You have, I say MAGA Republican Congress member Turner, because he is a MAGA Republican, because look at his behavior. This guy was supposed to pretend to be like a centrist. He's not at all. He's a member of the Oversight and Armed Services Committee. And in fact, he was supposed to be the leader of the Armed Services Committee, but he was kind of brushed aside. And here he's being asked a pretty basic question on face the nation. So like, what is the, what do you know about it? Did the Navy mine the straight of her mood? Did the Navy remove their minds? Did Iran mine the straight of her moves?

11:18Ben Meiselas:Do you know anything that's happening? Because Congress is supposed to conduct oversight of this. So MAGA Republican Congress member Turner, do you know anything about this here? Watch what he says. Play this clip. Did they mine the straight of her moves? Because in that tweet today the president also said they might not have. Because he said no. I think you'll have to ask the president. It's his tweet. But that's the point that Congress has not been briefed on that. As a member of oversight in armed services, do you feel like this has actually been adequately explained to you because the American public does not?

11:51The president just tweeted this this morning. So you'll have to ask the president. We would love to ask the president or the secretary of state or the Secretary of Defense. But members of Congress from his party are the only ones sitting here today. And we do appreciate you answering questions on it.

12:08Ben Meiselas:Thank you, Bernice. All right. We'll be right back. Then more from MAGA Republican Congress member Mike Turner, who said this conflict is ongoing. And then to her credit, the host is like, yeah, but didn't Donald Trump say that the war is won? What do you mean the conflict is ongoing? I thought you said that the isn't this war supposed to be over here? Watch this. Let's play this clip. The weapon preventing that. However, the negotiation itself is proof of the fact that militarily you cannot achieve destruction of nuclear ambition. Is it not? No, it's not because they're still ongoing. And the president has said this this this conflict, this this act, the negotiations.

12:50this is not over. And as it's not over, Iran is going to have to come to the realization as as the JCPOA, the original enrichment deal that Obama had negotiated where he said, we're not going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon, but we're just going to watch. And they didn't have a nuclear weapon. And we're going to watch. And they don't have a nuclear weapon now. And we're going to watch them enrich until they get close enough, and then we'll take military action.

13:14Ben Meiselas:Then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Byron Donalds. And you want to see the cover up of the Epstein files in real time. You have Kristen Welker over at Meet the Press said, so are you going to, Pam Bondi is supposed to sit for her deposition on Tuesday. She was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. You sit on the House Oversight Committee. Don't you want to have her over here? Here, listen to what he says. Play this clip. I want to move to some domestic issues now. Major headline this week, the first lady, Melania Trump, put Jeffrey Epstein back in the headlines when she made a surprise announcement denying ties to the convicted sex offender.

13:56You're a member of the House Oversight Committee, which was scheduled to hear from former Attorney General Pam Bondi this coming Tuesday about her handling of the Epstein files. The Justice Department says Bondi's ouster excuses her from having to appear. Do you think Pam Bondi should testify this week? Look, I don't actually at this point, I don't really think so. Now that she's a former attorney general of the United States. Well, Hillary Clinton, hold on. Hillary Clinton was in an office and she testified. Well, let me be let me be very clear. We're going to be continuing with our investigations into this matter.

14:31The Oversight Committee has been steadfastly working on this. Also with survivors who chose to come forward to bring more information. I think if a former A.G. Bondi comes in, that'll be a determination of the committee as a whole. Let me also say that the now former attorney general, she did come into the committee in a session to have open conversation and dialogue with Republican and Democrat members. Republican members came. Let me explain this. This is important. Republican members came to that committee hearing asking the attorney, the former attorney general Bondi, important questions. The Democrats refused to ask her any questions because they wanted the cameras on because they wanted to turn it into a political circus.

15:12Ben Meiselas:And more about the subpoena where he's like, well, we'll see. We'll see. I mean, we'll see here. Play this clip right here. For you, you actually voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with a subpoena. Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former attorney general, Pam Bondi? Well, like I said, we'll see what happens when we get back to DC. If the committee still wants the former AG to come in, then I'm quite sure Pam Bondi will come in and you won't even get down that road. What happened with Bill and Hillary is that we had a bipartisan subpoena for them to come in and the Clintons basically ignored the subpoena.

15:52So we had to move through towards criminal contempt proceedings because Bill and Hillary were trying to negotiate their way out of actually coming in and answering questions. And I just find it so fascinating, I think would be putting it lightly, that as you have

16:08Ben Meiselas:Maggie Mike Johnson saying, the Democrats are the crazy one, the Democrats are the crazy one. I mean, I did a whole video on it this morning, but you saw Donald Trump's post this morning, right? And Donald Trump's post throughout the day and his interviews with Maria Bartiroma, where he starts talking about renaming the Strait of Hormuz and calling it the Donald Trump Gulf or changing the name of the Persian Gulf and doing a blockade because he read about it in justthenews.com or something, some right-wing blog. He attacked the Pope. What about that, Maga Mike? He attacked the Pope. Now all of Maga said, the Pope is Marxist.

16:45Ben Meiselas:The Catholic Church is a Marxist organization. That's literally what the Magas are going with, right? Okay, so Maga Mike, let me just ask you a question. If you think this behavior is normal right here, here play this clip going to be enough the blockade in the straight the opening up capacity in the united states for is this going to be enough to lower the price of oil and gas sir well it's going to be eventually it's going to be lowered no it might not happen initially but it's going to it's going to go down when this is all over look the stock market the dow had 50 000 it was supposed to be in four or five years they said it won't happen during this okay and And with all of that, let me just share with you just to do a refresh of all of this.

17:29Ben Meiselas:Let me show you Democratic Senator Ossoff, who gave an incredible speech as part of his campaign for reelection in the Senate. This is some of the top. I said it's not I was going to say it's some of the top messaging, but this is just being a human being and fighting for people. Watch Democratic Senator Ossoff here play this clip. Now, I don't know if you saw, but the president apparently promised pardons for the entire White House staff. Did you all see that? Which I guess is the kind of thing you do when you run the White House like a casino.

18:10Now, maybe the West Wing's too busy placing Calci and Polly market bets on the war to care. but Americans are getting hurt. Hurt by the illegal tariffs that send prices higher and higher, by skyrocketing health premiums, by four dollar gas. Hurt by insurance companies that deny claims for needed care. Hurt by the hedge funds snatching up tens of thousands of homes across our state. Hurt by the data centers driving up power bills. And so when you're out there talking to folks over the next six months, remind them what the president of the United States said last week. Quote, it's not possible, he said, for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, or Medicare.

19:07That's what the president said. He said we can only afford to fund war. And then two days later released his budget demanding we increase Pentagon spending to one and a half trillion dollars per year. Paid for by ending the program that helps millions afford utility bills, by canceling affordable housing programs and by cutting cancer research. All this just one year after they sent insurance premiums skyrocketing and gutted Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. This is their answer to America's cost of living crisis. This is their answer to the Savannah nurse working a double shift whose utilities are about to get shut off.

20:02the Tift County farmer getting crushed by the trade war and now diesel and now fertilizer the family in college park skipping doctor's visits because premiums are just too high in Donald Trump's America the rich get tax cuts the well-connected get stock tips and everybody else makes sacrifices But Americans have seen through this scam and it's up to Georgia Democrats to end it. Are you ready to win, Georgia Democrats?

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