Luke Thomas
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Jun
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who had already received through his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, billions of dollars of Saudi investment, very substantial Emirati investment, has been reportedly going around the Middle East asking for billions more.
from princes and shakes in the region, while moonlighting as the special envoy, or whatever they call him, leading the most sensitive American diplomacy.
It's grotesque.
It's absurd.
I think that the American people see it for what it is, and it is another reason that a wave is building toward these midterm elections that is going to rebuke these abuses of power and this corruption in a historic way.
Well, I mean, and of course, you know the answer to that question.
I mean, today, to my knowledge, this is the first time that the Secretary of Defense has even testified in public since this war began two months ago.
And the Republicans in Congress have shown zero inclination, zero inclination to use their oversight power in any meaningful way.
That's a fair point.
That's a fair point.
And it probably should have, although I will say I don't think he was occupying the same sort of role of diplomatic prominence during that period.
But he was clearly advising the administration on foreign policy during the first term.
But look, the oversight and investigations muscles in Congress generally have atrophied.
I mean, the Republicans in office right now are –
living in fear of the White House.
They're not going to impose any accountability or transparency.
But I'll just say generally, I've spent the last few years using oversight power in Congress to investigate civil rights abuses in our prison system, to investigate abuses in ICE detention, to investigate the mistreatment of military families by defense contractors.
And part of what's happened in the United States, part of the reason that power has shifted so much toward the unaccountable executive is
is because Congress doesn't bother doing real investigations and real oversight.
Yeah, I mean, I'm the first Jew elected to the Senate in Georgia history.
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