WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.559 Treasury Secretary Scott Descent today announcing a quote economic d 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:09.359 Day against Iran and any of the countries that provide 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.359 financial support to that country. Lest you weren't paying attention, 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.000 we've been in the midst of a many months long 5 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:22.199 illegal and unconstitutional war with Iran, So check this out. 6 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:22.960 The US will. 7 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.960 Impose punishing sanctions on countries and entities that do business 8 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.399 with Iran, and it's aimed to ratchet up pressure on 9 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:35.960 the Iranium regime amid the current no war, no deal limbo. 10 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:38.399 This is what stuck with me when I saw this 11 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.359 reporting from Axios. The Trump administration will also have to 12 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:46.479 aggressively confront countries like China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Cutter, Turkey 13 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:50.640 and others that still trade with Iran, something it hasn't 14 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:55.880 done so far. You really think convicted fellon Donald Trump 15 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.200 is going to start lowering the boom on China? 16 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.280 You think he's going to do it with Russia? 17 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.400 I mean, Cutter, the people that gave him his four 18 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.000 hundred million dollar bribe of a luxury jet. Do you 19 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.719 think he's going to lower the boom on those countries? 20 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.000 What acroc of shits. 21 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.319 But what I do know is We have eighteen active 22 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:19.760 service members who have died died while doing their duty 23 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.200 in this illegal war. We also have more than one 24 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.760 hundred billion dollars in counting that's been wasted in this 25 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:31.000 illegal war. And we have a whole slew offfeckless, ballless 26 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.439 Republicans that have done nothing about this illegal war. 27 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:39.000 So, in light of everything that has. 28 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:43.680 Been going on, including this recent spate of threats to 29 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.159 have economic sanctions, which by the way, have already existed 30 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.439 against Iran, I thought it was important for us to 31 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:53.760 get caught up with Congressman Jason Crowe from Colorado. 32 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:54.079 Listen. 33 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.599 He's on Armed Services, he's on Intel, he's a Bronze 34 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:02.359 Star recipient, he did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. 35 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.359 I mean, somebody who would know the region and would 36 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.319 understand the issues that are at play here. We have 37 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.439 a very detailed conversation about what's going on, but then 38 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:15.960 we also talk about why it's so critically important to 39 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:19.360 get rid of the Republicans. Get rid of the Republicans 40 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.360 because they're not doing anything, they're a waste of space, 41 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:26.000 and to get Democrats elected this coming November. 42 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:27.039 Take a listen. 43 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:32.039 Joining me now is Congressman Jason Crowe, representing Colorado's six Congressman, 44 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:32.639 thank you so. 45 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:33.840 Much for joining me. 46 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Especially first of all, one, thank you for your service. 47 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.919 It goes without saying that you truly understand what it 48 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.479 takes to be able to serve as a patriot for 49 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.759 this country. Your role on armed services and intel is 50 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.520 incredibly important for this next question I have for you, 51 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.479 which is thank you. Always listen. You're always welcome to 52 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.960 come here. There's always a lot going on. I just 53 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.840 kind of wanted to start with the top line, which is, look, 54 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:04.719 the USS Lincoln finally able to come home back to 55 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.800 San Diego after one of the most outrageous deployments that 56 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.199 we've seen. We've covered it extensively here at Katie Fang News, 57 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.840 but listen, as somebody who understands this sacrifice, just wanted 58 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.560 to just get your top line thoughts about what it 59 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.319 took to be able to get these people home. 60 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:23.479 Yeah. Well, you know, we're still trying to get information, 61 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.960 Katie from the administration. It's been a huge stone walling 62 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.719 the last year and a half from this administration. No information, 63 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.439 no briefings. There very few briefings, I should say very 64 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.759 few hearings in the amount of information and briefings and 65 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.439 hearings and information responses that we normally get from an 66 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.479 administration has fallen off a cliff. Right. This comes in 67 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.960 tandem with them kicking out journalists from the Pentagon, like 68 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.080 they clearly don't want people to know what they're doing, 69 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.479 what they're not doing, and they have cut off information flow, 70 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.759 which you know, as a policymaker, makes it very hard 71 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.199 to understand what is happening and what is not. So 72 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.039 that's the first piece. The second is, you know, the 73 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.319 larger Iran conflict, which is something that Americans just don't want, 74 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.800 right eighty plus percent of Americans think it's a bad idea, 75 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.560 and that's actually a bipartisan thing. It's one of the 76 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.600 most bipartisan things in America right now. That people want 77 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:20.360 us to be out of conflict in the Middle. 78 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:21.000 East or done with it. 79 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.079 They're done spending trillions, literally trillions of dollars in thousands 80 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.399 of American lives and endless conflict in the Middle East. 81 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.639 And then with regard to Lincoln, two things going on here. 82 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.480 One is the expenditure of money, the vast amounts of 83 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.959 money it takes to have things like aircraft carrier battle groups, 84 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:41.480 because it's not just the carrier. By the way, when 85 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.480 you send an aircraft carrier, there are actually dozens of 86 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.160 ships in support network resources that go into that. We're 87 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.399 talking billions of dollars here, So there's the expense of 88 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.800 resources in money and taking things out of the Indo Pacific, 89 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.839 Like there is zero aircraft carriers right now in the 90 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.240 Pacific to counteract China because they've shifted them all to 91 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.360 this conflict. And then the strain on our soldiers. And 92 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.360 the last thing I'll say here is there's a difference 93 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:16.959 between what our military is asked to do and making 94 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.839 sacrifices and doing tough things. You know, I was a ranger, 95 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:22.120 I was a paratrooper. I went to Rackt in Afghanistan. 96 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.480 We are trained to do tough things, and our service 97 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.000 members will welcome the opportunity to do tough things because 98 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.399 that's why we got into service to begin with. 99 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:32.000 YEP. 100 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:38.120 That's different from incompetence and corruption and lack of preparedness 101 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.519 and a lack of a mission that leads to unnecessary suffering, 102 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.079 which is what we're dealing with here right now. That's 103 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.920 a huge difference because this administration is said, Oh, they 104 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.680 need to stop complaining. This is what the military does. No, 105 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.120 this is not what the military does unnecessarily suffer. We 106 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.319 do tough things if we need to. 107 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.480 Well, and let me be Claire, I don't need pete 108 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.839 Hegseth offering his criticis and let alone bone spurs Trump 109 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.399 sending there trying to criticize what our men and women 110 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:06.839 and sons and daughters are doing. 111 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.680 Look, fundamentally, we have at least eighteen. 112 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.800 Act As service members' lives that have been lost as 113 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.319 a result of this illegal war. You know, I have 114 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.959 to ask you, Congressman, because oversights really important. Armed services 115 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.920 Intel both have incredibly important roles and getting to the 116 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.040 bottom of what the hell is going on here? I mean, 117 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.120 you talk about us having exposed flanks, right, because now 118 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.920 we have other conflicts or other potential issues that could arise, 119 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.600 and we're rediverting all these resources and attention to be 120 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.000 able to deal with this illegal war. What are your 121 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.279 Republican counterparts telling you though about this? Because we're clocking 122 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.240 more than what seven months now on this six months 123 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.639 of this war, and I just feel like we now 124 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.480 hear there's an economic d Day coming against Iran. But 125 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.720 does that mean that we are Our might didn't work, 126 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.560 so now we're trying to go to the dollar pain. 127 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.480 I mean we're already feeling the pain already as Americans financially. 128 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.600 Yeah. Yeah, this economic D Day. Let me started with 129 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.519 the last thing and then we're bad. It is economic day. 130 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.560 It's just insane, like we according to Donald Trump, we've 131 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.399 won this war over eleven times. We've crushed her around 132 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.680 six or seven times already. H you know the next 133 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.560 thing is going to be the thing, right, We're going 134 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.600 to crush them now this new strategy, we've taken over 135 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:21.519 the straits of horror moves. We now own it. It's 136 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.519 now US territory. It's an economic D Day. I mean, 137 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:28.560 all of this is bs right. The administration has lost 138 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.879 all credibility because they keep on talking about things being 139 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.240 the biggest, the boldest, the most beautiful, the greatest ever seen. 140 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.680 And we know better. America knows better. But we know 141 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.199 that this is not a winning war. We see it, 142 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.279 the world sees it. And what is stunning. I mean 143 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:49.519 there's a lot of stunning things it's happening here, but 144 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.759 one of them is I talk a lot with our 145 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.519 allies with foreign leaders, with Warren military, they've actually stopped 146 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.600 paying attention like they they've stopped caring, like they're just like, Okay, well, 147 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.920 we're just going to go do our own thing, and 148 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.360 we're going to move forward without America. And because nothing 149 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.360 they say, they say or do holds any credibility, and 150 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:10.920 if they say they're going to do something, they're going 151 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:12.480 to change our mind in twenty four or forty eight 152 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.800 hours later. So we're just going to go into a 153 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.399 post American world. And that is not good for us. 154 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.279 It doesn't serve our interests. They won't serve the American people. 155 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:23.079 For the world to move on without us, it won't 156 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:25.600 make us safer. It's actually make us a lot less safe. 157 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.959 It's going to lead to less economic prosperity, and we're 158 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.519 going to be marginalized in the eyes of the world. 159 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.559 And that is the legacy that Donald Trump is building 160 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.759 right now, and that is our work to try to 161 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:40.200 stop that and to turn that around and to build 162 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.240 something new. Look. 163 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.559 France and Saudi Arabia needing today to be able to 164 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.080 try to figure out their own way of trying to 165 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:52.440 navigate this straight of her moves issue. Iran and Oman 166 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.159 trying to deal with the straight of her moves clearly. 167 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:56.440 And I'm including the United States and any of this. 168 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.440 I want to actually say, this is a quote from 169 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.360 Around's president just within the last few hours. He said 170 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:06.240 Trump has thrust the United States into a full scale economic, military, 171 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:07.240 and security war. 172 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.639 I mean, not a fan, but of a rants president. 173 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.440 But he speaks the truth, does he not. 174 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.320 I mean, we're at this stage also where we not 175 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.080 only can't we can't trust our own leadership in DC, 176 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:21.679 not only from our Secretary of Defense, but from our 177 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.480 commander in chief. We also don't have the right treatment 178 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.159 of again the people that are doing one of the 179 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.000 most incredible sacrifices they can do by serving in our 180 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.559 armed forces. And then at the same time, you have 181 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.399 Trump sitting there closing up to Kim Jong un in 182 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.480 North Korea, who then launches ten ballistic missiles just a 183 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.080 few days ago, and in curbing or limiting the joint 184 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.159 military operations or practices and drills that we do with 185 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.720 our South Korean You know, friends, is this is upside 186 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:50.799 down world now? 187 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:52.320 I think for the United. 188 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.840 States, Yeah, absolutely, I mean, let's chalk up the list 189 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.799 here of the things this administration has done just as 190 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:02.159 a initial matter, right that we're not going to go 191 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.480 into a comprehensive list because that would take us hours. 192 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:08.240 But we are engaged now in a conflict in Iran, 193 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:09.519 and we don't know how we're going to pull out 194 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.799 of it. The Iranians now know how to control the 195 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.559 strait of horror moves and how to use it as 196 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.919 leverage geopolitically in a way that they didn't before. A 197 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.320 more hard line leader than before, and more extreme leader 198 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.720 is now in charge of Iran. Right, I was no 199 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.440 fan of Iotola Komene, but a son by every measure, 200 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.480 even by the admission of this administration, is a more 201 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.039 hard line leader. The resistance, the opposition in Iran, which 202 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.399 by the way, in January and February, this regime was 203 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.039 up against the ropes, right, there were protests in the 204 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.559 streets and they were pushing back on the Iranian regime. 205 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:47.600 It was the closest this regime was coming to collapse 206 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.440 in over fifteen years, and that's now all gone and dissipated. 207 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.519 We have depleted our own munitions in stockpiles, spent one 208 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:59.600 hundred billion dollars, pushed our allies away and that's just Iran, right. 209 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:03.080 We've now marginalized ourselves and we're pushing South Korea away 210 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.559 and emboldening North Korea. Our NATO allies can't trust us 211 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:09.919 and are trying to figure out how to move forward 212 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.519 without us. And Donald Trump is meanwhile sitting here trying 213 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:17.759 to figure out how to rename ships after himself, how 214 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.879 to create a battleship because he thinks they're big and cool, 215 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.879 not to you know, let's not let's not even talk 216 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.240 about the fact that nobody wants battleships because they're easy 217 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:32.240 to destroy, an extremely expensive. It is. It is again incomprehensible, 218 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:34.799 the damage that he is doing the national security and 219 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.360 the silence, the silence and complicity of so many of 220 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:40.879 my Republican colleagues. And I don't say that, I don't 221 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:47.039 relish that, actually because I want bipartisanship. We need bipartisanship 222 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.240 on this issue, not just to say we have it, 223 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.000 but because it's the only way to build large and 224 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.200 during policies that will serve the American people. And it 225 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.600 is it is fading away. 226 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:03.240 Okay, bit listen, I agree that my partisanship makes sense 227 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.320 when you actually have where or not in the upside 228 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.679 down world as I talked about, right because here, because 229 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.200 here's the fundamental reality. You launched with some of your colleagues, 230 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.480 Democratic colleagues, the End Corruption Caucus, because look, all of 231 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:17.440 us deals with corruption. 232 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:18.679 This is all corruption. 233 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.759 This is you know, industrial military complex making more money 234 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:25.240 off of us. This is Trump doing a stupid car race, 235 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:26.960 Indy car race in the middle of DC. 236 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.639 That's not making stuff cheaper for us. 237 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.399 This is US spending one hundred billion dollars plus on 238 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.799 this war, not to mention the fact to your point, 239 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.320 you know, all of this, and then the beef drama 240 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:37.799 that we're having. 241 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.360 I mean, it just goes on and on. 242 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.639 And yet what Republicans are trying to work with you 243 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.159 on the End Corruption Caucus, What Republicans are trying to 244 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:47.480 work with you on the end Dark. 245 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.480 Money Act that you introduce. 246 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:50.759 It's like, I don't really see them clamor to come 247 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.600 work with you to be able to do any of this. 248 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.559 No, they're not, they're not, you know, And I that's 249 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.399 why right now, my main priority is just to beat 250 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.559 them all at the ballot bucks. Yes, they have had 251 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.960 a chance, they have had so many chances to do 252 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:08.120 the right thing. And then there have been so many 253 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.159 off ramps, you know, January sixth, the pandemic, so many 254 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.440 off ramps in my time in Congress, and they have 255 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.759 given up on it. So all right, where are we now? 256 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:21.039 We need to beat them, We need to send them home. 257 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:23.360 The only way to break the fever that has gripped 258 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.320 this Republican Party, that has destroyed this Republican park, because 259 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.159 it doesn't even exist anymore, even a party, right, it's 260 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.600 just the it's just the mega movement and controlled by 261 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.799 Donald Trump. It's not an ideological party. Is we have 262 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.080 to we have to beat as many as possible, break 263 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.600 the fever that's gripping them, and bring new people in. Right, 264 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:43.679 And that's that's what I believe now, and I don't 265 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.639 again relish saying that. But you know, let's harken back 266 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.600 to February when actually November and then February when I 267 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:56.159 filmed a video with several of my fellow veterans, including 268 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.559 Mark Kelly, Yes, where we said that our military has 269 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:06.320 an obligation to disobey unlawful orders. There's nothing sensational about that, right, 270 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:10.120 that's military one oh one, that's the u CMJ. We're 271 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:14.039 simply restating what military law states and what every service 272 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.480 member knows. The President threatened to have us executed and 273 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.840 then tried for treason in that order, by the way, 274 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:21.360 he even messes up. 275 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.480 That would be a little messy, yep, yep. 276 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:27.080 And then in February he directs the DOJ to attempt 277 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.039 to indict us, so several times it's the grand jury. 278 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.879 So here you have us. They're trying to send me 279 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.759 to prison for stating something basic about our military. Guess 280 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.360 how many of my fellow veterans and Republicans reached out 281 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:42.879 to me during that time? 282 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.159 How many? How many? I mean, this is this is 283 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.000 my bunny's. 284 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.639 So what am I to do? Right? Where do I 285 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:58.080 go with that? Right? If when when they're literally trying 286 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.039 to put me in prison for standing up and speaking 287 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.240 out and the people that I've legislated and worked with 288 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.960 can't even pick up the film be like, hey, are 289 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.840 you okay? Is your family all right? I know you're 290 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:14.519 getting death threats, I know that they're cert What am 291 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:19.320 I to do? And the answer is very simple, fight 292 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.200 my ass off, Yeah, punch back as hard as I 293 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:29.360 possibly can and try to win. And that is my priority. 294 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:31.440 That's why I took the job as the co chair 295 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.600 of the battle Ground. I'm managing the battleground for House 296 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.960 Democrats right now to win as many seats as possible. 297 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.360 Yeah, this is perfect segue. 298 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.440 Congressman, I'm so glad that you said this, because I 299 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.600 really this is kind of also some of the meat 300 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:45.080 on the bone I wanted to talk to you about. 301 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.480 So you come from a working class family and you're 302 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:51.080 the first in your family to go to college three tours, 303 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:52.080 ron Star. 304 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.360 I mean, you understand what. 305 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:59.480 It's like to to You really understand the word affordability. 306 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.799 It's been used a lot lately, right, Affordability is used 307 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.759 a lot, but you really have an understanding. And I 308 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.000 spend a lot of time here at this channel talking 309 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.320 to candidates and talking to people about how important is 310 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.720 that your lived experience informs who you are and as 311 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:14.039 a candidate, what you're going to be able to bring 312 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.960 to DC. You also are helping on the flip red 313 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.639 to blue right the D Triple C, and that's a 314 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.600 really important thing. We had a great conversation with Congressman 315 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.879 Underwood about this. You just announced or the D Triple 316 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.879 C excuse me, just announced that they added five new 317 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.960 candidates to this cycle. So the red to blue candidates 318 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.879 now are thirty seven. And you know, Congressman, what I 319 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.600 noted about these five new candidates is something I'm sure 320 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.840 you noted, which is there's a retired Army brigadier general. 321 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:50.080 There's a former officer in Navy JAG. There is a 322 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.919 thirty five year veteran from the Navy helicopter pilot, three star, 323 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.480 amiable chief of the Navy Reserve, Nancy LeCour I mean, you. 324 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.840 Go, by the way, Nancy was uh was fired by 325 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.160 Pete heigsays she she was one of the admirals who 326 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.960 was purged by Pete hegsaf because he didn't meet the 327 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.880 loyalty and ideological litmus tests of this administration. 328 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.640 And she also happened to be a woman too, by 329 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:14.559 the way, which is I think a big, big problem 330 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:19.839 for Pete. Exactly. Yeah. So but listen, it doesn't escape 331 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:21.720 my notice that these are there are a lot of 332 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:23.920 veterans here right that are a part of this flip 333 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:25.480 red to blue. So I guess my question for you 334 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:30.200 is this, Congressman, you you there's there's you that stands 335 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.079 for I think kind of this big wave lately of 336 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:39.279 super kind of assault of the earth. People that don't 337 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:42.240 have like a background in politics, right, that that go 338 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.200 because they believe in being the change. 339 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:46.680 You don't take corporate money. 340 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.160 You're coming salt of the earth, like I said, someone 341 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.160 who wants to come and really make a difference in DC. 342 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:52.039 And fight for the people. 343 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.599 And then how does how does it work the way 344 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:57.200 that you're looking at some of these people that are 345 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.759 the red to blues, because I feel like they're also 346 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:00.480 fitting that mold. A lot of these people are not 347 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.640 career politicians. They're not people that woke up and they're like, 348 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:05.759 you know what, I want to run for office. I 349 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.359 think a lot of what we're seeing from these Democratic candidates, 350 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.039 and because they are so competitive is because they look 351 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.160 like you and me, right, They look like just people 352 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.799 that care enough that give a shit about what happens 353 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.480 to their fellow Americans in all ways, and that's the 354 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.799 reason why they want to come over and be in Congress. 355 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:23.240 Yeah, no, you're you're totally right. And so I have 356 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.799 two I have two side hustles, as I joke and 357 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:29.079 they say, but they're really not really sid hustles. An 358 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.039 unbelievable amount of my time and energy right now. And 359 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:37.200 that is one is building a new progressive vision for 360 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:38.920 foreign policy and national security. 361 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:39.400 Nice. 362 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.880 Well, one thing that's really important is that we don't 363 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:44.759 say we're going to go back and when everyone says 364 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.480 we're going to rebuild post something, yeah, we're not. We're 365 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.559 not rebuilding anything. Right. People don't want to go back. Right. 366 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.240 Donald Trump is elected president because people were fed up 367 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.279 with the system that wasn't serving them, that they viewed 368 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.400 as hypocritical. And Donald Trump even camp pained on a 369 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:02.359 lot of these things. See, he actually campaigned on like 370 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:07.039 government refum, he campaigned on ending the endless wars in 371 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:09.359 the Middle East. He's obviously turned us back on all 372 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.440 of those, but he knew where the public sentiment was. 373 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.720 So we're going to build something new. It's going to 374 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.440 be a progressive vision for national security that is going 375 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.359 to acknowledge that we have fallen short, that we have 376 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.839 failed in a lot of ways. That's number one. Number 377 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:28.599 two is helping the Democratic Party re enter vast swaths 378 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.400 of our country. Right. And you mentioned I'm a working 379 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:37.440 class guy. I was raised in a very conservative, you know, 380 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:43.640 Irish Catholic construction family in the Midwest. And what I 381 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.759 know is that it has taken us twenty years to 382 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:52.240 dig ourselves into this hole in working class rural America. Right, 383 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.839 in twenty twenty four and fall of twenty four, we 384 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:58.200 lost ninety percent of US counties. 385 00:19:59.079 --> 00:19:59.240 Right. 386 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.039 That is not a major already, that is not a coalition, right, 387 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:04.079 And that didn't happen in one cycle. That happened over 388 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:06.920 twenty years. There's a lot of reasons for that, but 389 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:09.559 we have to understand those reasons and we have to 390 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.920 do the honest accounting as Democrats where we have fallen short. 391 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:18.799 I don't blame Donald Trump forgetting elected president. Actually I 392 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:24.039 blame the Democrats for allowing him to get elected president twice. Right, 393 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.599 the second time. How did we lose to this guy? 394 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.359 It's insane, It's crazy. Why we lost to this guy? 395 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.519 That's on us, right, So we have to acknowledge that 396 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.079 we have to take responsibility for it, and we have 397 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:39.039 to actually go back to these communities that we haven't 398 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:42.440 showed up in in years. Actually, there are communities in 399 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:44.799 this country that were now that I've now recruited and 400 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.480 mentoring candidates and some of its you just mentioned, and 401 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:56.359