Rep. Sean Casten

Is it not being audited because it's going to shady characters in Venezuela, or is it not being audited because it's going to shady characters in the United States?

Right?

If there's no audit, how would you even know how to answer that question?

Sadly, that's true.

And frankly, that's probably been true for a long time.

I mean, you remember, you know, Jim Jordan denied a subpoena to come and testify before January 6th, and he was never really prosecuted for that.

And so I think there is a sense that if, you know, a government based on the rule of law is predicated on the idea that the people enforcing the rule of law will comply with the rule of law, that falls apart pretty quickly.

Yeah, exactly.

I think there's a separate issue in this Trump administration, and I certainly don't want to be here praising Jeff Sessions.

But in the first Trump administration, he was constrained because there were a number of people in his administration, people like John Bolton, people like Jeff Sessions, who understood the independence of what they had to do.

And, you know...

respected the president, were there to carry out his orders, but took their oath of the constitution seriously.

The people who Trump nominated for cabinet secretaries virtually to a person were nominated because they'll take orders.

Anybody who was going to stand up has been purged from the party.

Adam Kinzinger and I did not agree on very much, but Adam Kinzinger was dangerous because he challenged the president.

I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene on virtually nothing.

She's dangerous because she challenges the president.

And so the people who are left there, I mean, think of all the criticisms Trump had of Marco Rubio back in the presidential race.

Those criticisms stung because Marco Rubio, he's a beta dog, right?

That's who his personality is.