Tim Kaine

I think it was Will Rogers who said, I don't believe in organized political parties. That's why I'm a Democrat. We pride ourselves on being iconoclastic and individualistic.

I think it was Will Rogers who said, I don't believe in organized political parties. That's why I'm a Democrat. We pride ourselves on being iconoclastic and individualistic.

I think it was Will Rogers who said, I don't believe in organized political parties. That's why I'm a Democrat. We pride ourselves on being iconoclastic and individualistic.

Because you say, you go on to say, I won't take sides as president. I won't take sides on 9-11. Wow. I won't take sides on 9-11. Let me ask you this, as a general matter, do you find it hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't? Is that kind of a general deficit that you find in your own analytical abilities?

Because you say, you go on to say, I won't take sides as president. I won't take sides on 9-11. Wow. I won't take sides on 9-11. Let me ask you this, as a general matter, do you find it hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't? Is that kind of a general deficit that you find in your own analytical abilities?

Because you say, you go on to say, I won't take sides as president. I won't take sides on 9-11. Wow. I won't take sides on 9-11. Let me ask you this, as a general matter, do you find it hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't? Is that kind of a general deficit that you find in your own analytical abilities?

in every democracy is to maintain a fierce skepticism for government authority. And you're an authority, and you're an authority, but you wouldn't take sides on 9-11, and you're admitting, you know, I have a hard time telling what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't.

in every democracy is to maintain a fierce skepticism for government authority. And you're an authority, and you're an authority, but you wouldn't take sides on 9-11, and you're admitting, you know, I have a hard time telling what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't.

in every democracy is to maintain a fierce skepticism for government authority. And you're an authority, and you're an authority, but you wouldn't take sides on 9-11, and you're admitting, you know, I have a hard time telling what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't.

So you won't take sides on 9-11. Wow.

So you won't take sides on 9-11. Wow.

So you won't take sides on 9-11. Wow.

Well, Donald Trump has just installed a political hack to do his bidding.

Since we talked, Jen, last week, Trump tweeted out essentially a challenge slash threat to Pam Bondi saying, you're not going after my political enemies enough.

I think that was supposed to be a private message and it went out to tens of millions of people and he deleted it because it's the kind of thing that gets cases thrown out of court for malicious prosecution.

So he put in a loyalist as interim Eastern District of Virginia U.S.

attorney who has no Virginia experience, who has no prosecutorial experience, and clearly

He's told her, you've got to go after my enemies, but I'll raise it up one level.

If you've looked at our Attorney General Pam Bondi's statement tonight, her statement on the indictment says, you know, we've indicted for the following reasons.

And then the last line is, we will follow the facts in this case.

Did Pam Bondi go to law school?

You follow the facts before you indict someone for a crime.

You do not indict them and say, well, now we got to go look for some facts.

Her statement shows this thing is a complete political hatchet job.

And I think it's going to blow up in the Trump administration's face because having practiced law in the Eastern District of Virginia for 17 years, I don't see any of the judges

in this district dignifying this political persecution in any way.

Well, it looks like there's motions to dismiss the case for malicious prosecution.

There may be some motion to dismiss it on the grounds that the U.S.

attorney who is pursuing this is not lawfully in place.

There's a statute that says when there's a vacancy, the DOJ can put an interim prosecutor in for 120 days.

That 120 days had passed.

And after 120 days, only the district court judges in a district can approve somebody to be the U.S.

attorney.

An article in the National Review, hardly a liberal publication earlier this week, said you can't put a new interim in to do your bidding once the 120-day period has passed.

So I think the Comey attorneys have an awful lot of grounds to get this thing thrown out.

Look, I've had major differences in the past with Jim Comey that I don't want to really get into.

But the guy's entitled to the rule of law.

He's entitled to fairness.

He's entitled not to be victimized by a clearly trumped up political persecution.

And so I'm going to do everything I can as the senator for this state to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't pervert our two U.S.

attorney's offices publicly.

who have had a high standard for integrity for many, many decades, that he doesn't pervert them and turn them into engines of political persecution.

Well, I will tell you, I think Pam Bondi did a very important psychological reveal in the statement that she put out tonight.

If she felt that there was rock solid evidence to indict Jim Comey, she wouldn't have finished her official statement with the line, we will follow the facts in this case.

You know, that's what you do if you're like an investigating officer, right?

or even a prosecutor to decide whether to indict somebody.

You don't indict somebody and then say, well, now we got to figure out what the facts tell us.

She has shown her whole card and kind of revealed that she has deep ambivalence about what Trump is ordering her to do.

She's genuflecting to the boss rather than showing the independence that Americans have come to expect from an attorney general.

That was no indication of your guilty conscience.

I'm deeply worried about it, Jen.

I have worked with this office.

I was a city councilman and mayor in Richmond in the 1990s when Richmond had a horrible homicide problem.

And we worked hand in glove with the U.S.

attorney in the Eastern District, including Jim Comey, who was in the office at the time to try to come up with strategies to bring down our homicide rate.

This district and the Western District of Virginia have stellar reputations for integrity

Donald Trump nominated people for both of these positions after interviewing them and vetting them.

And he not only nominated them, but he even appointed them to be interim U.S.

attorneys.

And he's now fired both of them.

You and I are talking about the Eastern District tonight.

He also fired the U.S.

attorney in the Western District.

Virginia, get this, a former Republican state legislator and prosecutor who became the Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, a pro-Trump Republican.

But Donald Trump and the DOJ tried to push him around to demote people in the office who had served under multiple presidents.

And he said, I'm not doing it.

So he's out the door, even though Trump nominated him and appointed him to be the interim.

Eric Siebert is out the door.

Listen, in Virginia, we say Virginia is for lovers.

I also say Virginia is for people who have backbone.

We're not going to get pushed around.

We're not letting Donald Trump push the federal prosecutors around.

So he can put in a loyalist and a hack if he wants to.

But I don't think Virginians are going to accept it.

And I don't think our courts are going to accept it.

Glad to be with you, Jen.

Thanks.

Attacks on Virginia consumers. prices went up, and then when those nations retaliated, they retaliated against critical Virginia industry sectors, especially agriculture and forestry. I remember going out during the Trump first term to talk to my farmers and foresters, who by and large were Trump supporters, and they were saying, for God's sake, Senator, help us. This is hurting our businesses.

Attacks on Virginia consumers. prices went up, and then when those nations retaliated, they retaliated against critical Virginia industry sectors, especially agriculture and forestry. I remember going out during the Trump first term to talk to my farmers and foresters, who by and large were Trump supporters, and they were saying, for God's sake, Senator, help us. This is hurting our businesses.

Attacks on Virginia consumers. prices went up, and then when those nations retaliated, they retaliated against critical Virginia industry sectors, especially agriculture and forestry. I remember going out during the Trump first term to talk to my farmers and foresters, who by and large were Trump supporters, and they were saying, for God's sake, Senator, help us. This is hurting our businesses.

So look, here's what Americans are going to see. Higher prices, for energy, higher prices for groceries. That's what they're going to see. Businesses are going to get hurt when the retaliatory tariffs tick in. And I'm struck by the irony of last week, the president signed an emergency order regarding energy. There's an energy emergency, and he just put a 10% tariff on energy from Canada?

So look, here's what Americans are going to see. Higher prices, for energy, higher prices for groceries. That's what they're going to see. Businesses are going to get hurt when the retaliatory tariffs tick in. And I'm struck by the irony of last week, the president signed an emergency order regarding energy. There's an energy emergency, and he just put a 10% tariff on energy from Canada?

So look, here's what Americans are going to see. Higher prices, for energy, higher prices for groceries. That's what they're going to see. Businesses are going to get hurt when the retaliatory tariffs tick in. And I'm struck by the irony of last week, the president signed an emergency order regarding energy. There's an energy emergency, and he just put a 10% tariff on energy from Canada?

he is increasing prices at the pump and you'll start to see it within the next couple of days at the same time he's saying there's an energy emergency the emergency is self-created now senator kane i think has been on a roll lately let me show you one more clip of him right here let's play it i'll tell you i had a suspicion about why he did that why race bait at a moment like this i think the president didn't want to be asked tough questions like why did you let elon musk

he is increasing prices at the pump and you'll start to see it within the next couple of days at the same time he's saying there's an energy emergency the emergency is self-created now senator kane i think has been on a roll lately let me show you one more clip of him right here let's play it i'll tell you i had a suspicion about why he did that why race bait at a moment like this i think the president didn't want to be asked tough questions like why did you let elon musk

he is increasing prices at the pump and you'll start to see it within the next couple of days at the same time he's saying there's an energy emergency the emergency is self-created now senator kane i think has been on a roll lately let me show you one more clip of him right here let's play it i'll tell you i had a suspicion about why he did that why race bait at a moment like this i think the president didn't want to be asked tough questions like why did you let elon musk

force the FAA administrator to resign. When this crash happened, there was no FAA administrator because he had clashed with Elon Musk. Why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee within DHS on the second day of your presidency, saying that it wasn't related to national security? Oh, air safety is not related to national security?

force the FAA administrator to resign. When this crash happened, there was no FAA administrator because he had clashed with Elon Musk. Why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee within DHS on the second day of your presidency, saying that it wasn't related to national security? Oh, air safety is not related to national security?

force the FAA administrator to resign. When this crash happened, there was no FAA administrator because he had clashed with Elon Musk. Why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee within DHS on the second day of your presidency, saying that it wasn't related to national security? Oh, air safety is not related to national security?

Why did you issue a buyout offer to include air traffic controllers when we're already short of air traffic controllers. I think the president was nervous that he was going to be asked questions about his own administration's policies that were deemphasizing air safety. And so he decided to have everybody chased down a rabbit hole of his DEI allegations with no evidence.

Why did you issue a buyout offer to include air traffic controllers when we're already short of air traffic controllers. I think the president was nervous that he was going to be asked questions about his own administration's policies that were deemphasizing air safety. And so he decided to have everybody chased down a rabbit hole of his DEI allegations with no evidence.

Why did you issue a buyout offer to include air traffic controllers when we're already short of air traffic controllers. I think the president was nervous that he was going to be asked questions about his own administration's policies that were deemphasizing air safety. And so he decided to have everybody chased down a rabbit hole of his DEI allegations with no evidence.

Should you be confirmed? Would you take those obligations to watch out for American veterans seriously?

Should you be confirmed? Would you take those obligations to watch out for American veterans seriously?

Should you be confirmed? Would you take those obligations to watch out for American veterans seriously?

If you became aware that an employer, a major employer, was taking actions that disproportionately negatively affected veterans, would that concern you? Yes. The mass firing that President Trump is doing within the federal government right now is hitting veterans very, very hard. The civilian workforce is about 3% veteran. The federal workforce is 30% veteran.

If you became aware that an employer, a major employer, was taking actions that disproportionately negatively affected veterans, would that concern you? Yes. The mass firing that President Trump is doing within the federal government right now is hitting veterans very, very hard. The civilian workforce is about 3% veteran. The federal workforce is 30% veteran.

If you became aware that an employer, a major employer, was taking actions that disproportionately negatively affected veterans, would that concern you? Yes. The mass firing that President Trump is doing within the federal government right now is hitting veterans very, very hard. The civilian workforce is about 3% veteran. The federal workforce is 30% veteran.

And they received an email that said, from the administration, if you tender your resignation by next Friday, we will guarantee you payment through the end of September, whether or not you show up for work. So tender your resignation. And then, boy, it's just going to be a gravy train. You're just going to get paid for seven months without working.

And they received an email that said, from the administration, if you tender your resignation by next Friday, we will guarantee you payment through the end of September, whether or not you show up for work. So tender your resignation. And then, boy, it's just going to be a gravy train. You're just going to get paid for seven months without working.

And they received an email that said, from the administration, if you tender your resignation by next Friday, we will guarantee you payment through the end of September, whether or not you show up for work. So tender your resignation. And then, boy, it's just going to be a gravy train. You're just going to get paid for seven months without working.

The president has no authority to make that offer. There's no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up regularly. for work. This is a guy who made this promise to contractors again and again and again when he was a private business guy. Oh, come work for me on my casino. Come work for me in a hotel. We're going to do a handshake. We're going to do a contract.

The president has no authority to make that offer. There's no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up regularly. for work. This is a guy who made this promise to contractors again and again and again when he was a private business guy. Oh, come work for me on my casino. Come work for me in a hotel. We're going to do a handshake. We're going to do a contract.

The president has no authority to make that offer. There's no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up regularly. for work. This is a guy who made this promise to contractors again and again and again when he was a private business guy. Oh, come work for me on my casino. Come work for me in a hotel. We're going to do a handshake. We're going to do a contract.

The contractor does the work and then finds out they get stiffed. So my message to federal employees who receive this is, yeah, the president has tried to terrorize you for about a week. and then gives you a little sweetheart offer If you resign in the next week, we're just gonna pay you for doing nothing for the next seven months. Don't be fooled.

The contractor does the work and then finds out they get stiffed. So my message to federal employees who receive this is, yeah, the president has tried to terrorize you for about a week. and then gives you a little sweetheart offer If you resign in the next week, we're just gonna pay you for doing nothing for the next seven months. Don't be fooled.

The contractor does the work and then finds out they get stiffed. So my message to federal employees who receive this is, yeah, the president has tried to terrorize you for about a week. and then gives you a little sweetheart offer If you resign in the next week, we're just gonna pay you for doing nothing for the next seven months. Don't be fooled.

Really want to focus on this last thing. What the president is doing is not only illegal, it's not only chaotic and damaging to Virginians, it's betraying a deep insecurity. And let me explain why. As you know, we're working on a budget deal right now. The Republicans kicked the budget to March 14. The president has two Republican houses.

Really want to focus on this last thing. What the president is doing is not only illegal, it's not only chaotic and damaging to Virginians, it's betraying a deep insecurity. And let me explain why. As you know, we're working on a budget deal right now. The Republicans kicked the budget to March 14. The president has two Republican houses.

Really want to focus on this last thing. What the president is doing is not only illegal, it's not only chaotic and damaging to Virginians, it's betraying a deep insecurity. And let me explain why. As you know, we're working on a budget deal right now. The Republicans kicked the budget to March 14. The president has two Republican houses.

If he wants to cut the budget, he's got majorities in both houses. He could just work with them to do it the lawful way. reach a budget that matches the Trump priorities over the course of the next six weeks.

If he wants to cut the budget, he's got majorities in both houses. He could just work with them to do it the lawful way. reach a budget that matches the Trump priorities over the course of the next six weeks.

If he wants to cut the budget, he's got majorities in both houses. He could just work with them to do it the lawful way. reach a budget that matches the Trump priorities over the course of the next six weeks.

The fact that he's not doing that, that he's using this illegal unilateral executive strategy means he doesn't have confidence that the Republican leadership in both houses will go along with the extremity of the actions that he's taking. That should tell us something.

The fact that he's not doing that, that he's using this illegal unilateral executive strategy means he doesn't have confidence that the Republican leadership in both houses will go along with the extremity of the actions that he's taking. That should tell us something.

The fact that he's not doing that, that he's using this illegal unilateral executive strategy means he doesn't have confidence that the Republican leadership in both houses will go along with the extremity of the actions that he's taking. That should tell us something.