Tammy Baldwin

What I've done, I may be getting ahead of myself here, but along with a number of my Democratic colleagues, we've introduced what are called war powers resolutions.

Each of us have introduced slightly different ones, so we're not just bringing the same thing up over and over again.

But we've been demanding votes, and basically,

we're going to put everyone on record unless you agree to bring Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Rubio, Department of Defense, Department of State, to the Congress in open hearings to state your case.

You know, I have seen this type of activity of it seems to be

trying to game the stock market.

And I have also seen what looks like war profiteering in many ways.

But let me give you my example that was quite shocking.

He announced near the end of trading one day, the war is very complete.

that created some increase in stock values.

And hours afterwards, he said, or maybe it was Secretary Hegseth said, tomorrow we will send more bombs into Iran than we have at any day prior.

Exactly.

So that's one of the examples I have seen.

The other thing is, instead of having experienced State Department diplomats

leading the charge on negotiations in a number of these conflicts including iran he has uh whitcoff and kushner who have incredible now real estate interests in the region that will be impacted by whether the region is experiencing violence or not and so that may be indirect

profiting, but he's not sending his experienced diplomats who have served and negotiated in Democratic as well as Republican administrations who have a depth of knowledge, who know the people they're talking to, and he's not sending them.

He's sending folks who have no experience in negotiating peace deals.

You know, I have no insight as to who on the Iranian side is talking to who.

I am only seeing what is reported.

I had a briefing yesterday.