Impeach Hegseth? Thomas Massie Makes His Case

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Professor Iwan Morus 0:00

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Natali Morris 0:55

Welcome to Redacted Everybody. We're coming to you live to talk about the impeachment proceedings introduced by Representative Thomas Massey for Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War. Now, what is this going to accomplish? If anything, of course, you know. Impeachment is voted upon. So the current uh Congress, Republican-led Congress, has supported this war. There's only very few who have not. So would they in fact vote for this? Would we in fact get impeachment hearings? Is this sort of procedural, if not symbolic, but important for the rest of us to know this is something that is punishable if Congress were serious, which clearly they're not. Now here's what Representative Massey proposed in the House today, just a little snippet and then we'll go through the details in a moment.

Thomas Massie 1:43

Impeaching Peter Brian Hegsath, Secretary of Defense for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Resolved that Peter Bryan Hegsath, Secretary of Defense, also referred to as Secretary of War by the Administration, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America against Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. Article one, waging war in contravention of the war powers resolution of nineteen seventy-three, section two C.

Natali Morris 2:29

So he goes on to speak. He spoke for about an hour today. He talked about not only bombing the girls' school in February of 2026, not only continuing to leave American forces in harm's way, uh also the attacks on Venezuela, which were unprompted, also defunding civilian tracking programs, which would tell us exactly how many civilians have been killed, how many military personnel has killed. Been killed. We don't have a strong sense of that because the military continues to hide that information. He talks about disregard for rules of engagement that Secretary Heggseth has ordered maximum lethality. He talked about uh removing legal advice, his legal advisors from the Department of War now, how he has omitted civilian protections from the 2026 defense.

Natali Morris 3:19

Defense budget retaliated against a member of Congress, uh Senator Mark Kelly. And he estimates that under the Trump administration and the Department of War, which is led by Secretary Hegseth, there have been at least 200 civilian deaths, 500 Houthi fighters, all without allowing Congress to declare war. So obviously, these are things any reasonable person should be upset about. About, but what will happen? Now it would be interesting if we did get a vote. I'm not sure we will. Uh, but again, it's worth listening to. Even if we know that the people in power are idiots, they are, that they don't take their responsibility to declare war seriously. They don't. They support every war, both sides, bipartisan support.

Natali Morris 4:05

So would Democrats actually vote to impeach Secretary Hegseth? Because

What is the impeachment proposal introduced by Representative Thomas Massey?

Natali Morris 4:09

Even Nancy Pelosi this week said, Well, we're at war. We need to support the president. What the hell? Nancy Pelosi, who hates Trump, who spent four years during her his first term doing nothing but dumping on Trump now is saying, Well, you know, but the war, we we support the war.