Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
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How did Democrats cross-examine Trump cabinet members?
The second form, ma'am, reclaiming my time. Ma'am, please, ma'am, reclaiming my time. I'd like you to avoid the filibuster so I can get to all my questions, please.
The Democrats were ripping into Donald Trump's cabinet members testifying on Capitol Hill with some powerful cross-examination. You saw right there, Democratic Congresswoman Escobar from Texas cross-examining the dog killer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. More on that cross-exam in a little bit. I now want to show you Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan, his cross-examination of Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, where he basically just asks Besant the most basic question, who pays for Trump's tariffs? Watch the response. Let's play this clip.
Who pays tariffs, Mr. Secretary?
No, no, no.
Answer the questions I ask, please. I only have five minutes. Who pays tariffs?
Sorry?
Who pays tariffs? Mr. Secretary, please.
Excuse me.
The question is very simply, who pays tariffs, Mr. Chairman? I'd like him to answer that question.
He wants to answer other questions. Well, Congressman, if the... Congressman, if the exporters... They dislike tariffs so much. Why wouldn't they if I think what you're trying to get me to say.
Did you remember the question? I'm not sure you did. Who pays tariffs?
It's a very complicated question.
Reclaiming my time. People pay tariffs, right?
I'm reclaiming my time, Mr. Secretary.
Reclaiming my time, Mr. Secretary. Reclaiming my time. You clearly aren't going to answer.
I'm not going to waste my time. Next up, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett goes one by one. with the individuals who the MAGA Republicans called to this committee hearing. And she goes and explains, seems pretty easy that Trump's policies are bad. Wouldn't you agree? Don't you think that these are some low IQ policies? She says, here, play this clip.
Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Okay, I don't really know where to begin. We've got a lot of ground to cover in about five minutes. So let's go. I've got three statements that I want to know if you agree or disagree with. And I want to just go down the row. Yes or no. Does cutting pay typically assist in recruiting a workforce? Yes or no.
No. No. Generally no. No.
Thank you. It sounds like a low IQ implementation to me. So let's go to the next one. Does poor working conditions assist with recruitment? Yes or no. No. No. No. No. Sounds like another low IQ implementation to me. And finally, I'm going to start with Mr. Potter because I don't know how this is going to go. Does union busting help with recruitment?
No. I know nothing about unions whatsoever.
I'm sorry.
No.
Okay. So again, another low IQ implementation. I just want to be clear that The American people should know that these are all Trump 2.0 policies. So when we say that he's failed, let me tell you, we got receipts and those are some of the receipts. So when we start talking.
So then the MAGA Republicans were getting so ripped to shreds yesterday and they really have. No ability to even debate anymore because they just basically take whatever Donald Trump posts on social media and then they're like, okay, I guess that's what we believe in now. And they know that they get flustered and that they can't even justify their positions. So I showed you this thing that they were doing last week, and they're continuing to do it this week. I'm talking about the members of Congress now, the MAGA Republican Congress members. So they don't even speak or debate with the Democratic Congress members anymore. They stay mute. They go silent. So you have a Democratic Congress member like Congress member Neguse, and he'll say, OK,
Could we debate this amendment because that's what we're supposed to do in Congress? Who wants to discuss this? I'd love to just debate it so I can see why you oppose it. And we can let's let's discuss our ideas in public as legislators. Let's talk about it. And then the MAGA Republicans just they refuse to respond publicly. I'm going to stop the video after four or five seconds of the silence.
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