Impeachment Incoming as Trump & Hegseth Collapse

>> All right, breaking news, Thomas Massey has introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hagseth. So, Republican on Republican, you love to see it. Let's play the clip. >> The institutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States of America. Wherefore, Secretary of Defense, Peter Hagseth, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution, if allowed to remain in office. >> Josh, break this down for us. >> So, we introduced eight articles, and I'll just go through them briefly. The first is starting a war without proper statutory authorization. The second one was Define Congress's withdrawal order. They asked him to withdraw the troops. They refused. The third is running past the 60-day extension that they gave them to bring the troops back. The fourth is ignoring civil casualty laws. The fifth is extrajudicial killings, and this involves the 221 individuals on boats outside of Venezuela that were killed without authorization. The sixth is suppressing pre-speech. You may remember Mark Kelly and others. Advise military officials not to follow or obey illegal orders. And the seventh is kidnapping a foreign leader. We remember that they are seized and basically brought back. Kidnapped, President Maduro from Venezuela. And the eighth is an unlawful war based on an air strike in Yemen without Congress's authorization. So, they will have a vote on this by Wednesday. I think they need 217 votes to impeach him, and we'll see what happens. I'm wondering if this allows Trump to get rid of his Hegseth problem. If he instructs little Moses Mike to say do it, KOing. I wonder what the internal conversations are going to be. What do you suspect? I would think that if Trump knew that he was going to be impeached, that he would allow Hegseth to resign, unless he wants to blame this on Hegseth and make him look like the villain, go through the impeachment process. All of the iron is going to be at Hegseth. It's going to be taken away from Trump. So, it's probably a tactic on his part. In any other world, if someone was going to be impeached and you knew they had the votes, you would tell that person to resign and put someone else in that you thought can be, would be confirmed. Here with Trump is just the opposite because he wants Hegseth to catch the blame. That, but I also can flip the other side of the coin to say he's going to double down on everything. We know that he doubled down with the appointment of Stephen Miller as his chief of staff. He realized the American public repudiated him, repudiated his immigration policies on 60 minutes. He said we went too far with immigration, but yet his actions are to appoint Stephen Miller. So, I could go either way on this. In the comment section, let us know what you think. Let us know is Trump going to green light it because you know little Moses Mike is not going to be like everybody vote your conscience. We know that it's going to be, hey boss, what do you want us to do? I think deep down Trump is maybe a spy for the Democrats and he's trying to turn every red state in the country blue because his actions show nothing else but contempt for his own conduct. I mean, he's helping the Democratic cause here. All right. Moving along, hegg Seth was asked about his possible impeachment. Let's do a little check in with Loti Pete. All day long, baby. Let's go. Just hearings, impeachments all day long. I'm with him on that. He says if you want to litigate that, that's not quite what they want to litigate. They want to litigate these eight reasons that we talked about earlier, like killing 221 people on a fishing boat for starters or for strikes and starting wars without Congress's authorization without any sort of statutory authorization or kidnapping a president from another country. There are other things that they want to talk to you about other than that. You know, every single time anybody from the Trump administration has been hauled up in front of Congress. We have Pam Bondi, who was just a complete nut screaming at the top of her lungs. The cow is over 50,000. But she was completely indignant. Then we had Cash Patel in that hilarious exchange with Senator Kennedy about why'd you get into bestiality. And so Pete Heggseth is going to come in there and he's going to be indignant and he's get all of these Trump officials act like they're 10 foot tall and bulletproof. And they just got a little taste on Tuesday. You're not 10 foot tall and you're not bulletproof. So is this a appetizer to the main course that's coming when Garcia is going to be chairing oversight in the majority? I think that shows itself just with DOJ and cases that actually go to court. In other words, all of these DOJ guys, all of these cabinet officials like Pete Heggseth, all of them, they just spewed these one liners that are just full of bullshit. They just say these things that aren't true. The problem is when you get into a place where you have to hold your right hand up and swear under oath, in facts matter, details matter, the truth matters. When you put them in that setting, their stories collapse. They fall apart and you see that in their cases, they bring forward. And with DOJ, you see this whole narrative of calling someone this or they did this and then they go to court, they can't prove any of it. And so what he just talked about there, well, you know, I'll stand on that. We'll talk about that all day long. Well, that's not going to fly in front of Congress. When they filed eight articles of impeachment, you can't just get up there and say this bullshit, these little speeches they give without having facts to support your position. All right. Let's do a little check in with the Democrats. More bad news for Chuck Schumer. Another Democrat declines to endorse Schumer. Pop this up. Senator Blumenthal declines to endorse Schumer as the next Senate majority leader. These non-endorsements are stacking up you guys. Blumenthal just told reporters, we need a conversation about leadership going forward because we need new energy and new ideas. This is the same thing I've heard from all of these senators is we need a conversation about new leadership. We need new ideas. Furthermore, before Chris Murphy had his stroke and Senator, we hope you're doing well. We hear you're at home and that you'll be back in the Senate next week. But I asked Chris Murphy on our weekend podcast, you know, this was before the election. If you win, if you actually take the Senate, we thought it was kind of a long shot. Now we have a lot of senators and several spares now. Thank God. Anyway, I asked him, would you endorse Schumer? Would you vote for him? And he was very, he goes, look, I'm sure you've read the article. We have a fight club in the Senate. And there's a lot of independent minded people. And I wondered like, you know, who'd be great? Elizabeth Warren. Wouldn't she be great? She'd be fantastic. But with Senator Blumethal, this isn't some member of the progressive left of the Democratic Party. This is a guy. Yeah, this is an establishment guy. So for him to say this, I put this in a little bit different category than I would some of these young blood, yeah, young blood Democrats. So that means something when he's not willing to say it because he and Schumer have been there forever together. Yeah, I think that they're probably going to have to have some serious, serious talks. And I understand you know, Schumer wants to come in and he wants to be Senate majority leader. I think it's just abundantly obvious that's not going to happen. I will be shocked. And I trust AOC. I trust the young progressive flank. I trust Garcia and Raskin. They're so we have such an incredible bench. We have so many incredible representatives in the Democratic Party that are stars. Right. And so I just I think the one that is winnable here is getting Chuck removed and getting somebody in the Senate that will go full tilt because that's what we need. And I think the progressive flank in the House will check Hucking. Well, you did see Jeffries come out with a very bold agenda. I think a day or two after this. He's changing his tune a little bit. Yeah, exactly. He's starting to talk about taking them all on. He saw how bad it flopped when he was like nobody wants to see us get even. He saw how bad that flop. But in here's the thing. I'm just going to say I'm sick of that. I'm sick of it's so unattractive to see a politician get on corporate media and say, well, nobody wants to see none of what nobody's voters want us to get even. And we're all like, what are you talking about? We want justice. Stop the criminals. And then he sees the backlash from that. And now he changes the story. If you have a rocona and AOC, Zora and Mamdani, Robert Garcia, these people come on our shows and they always are the same whether they're talking to corporate media to a podcaster. It doesn't matter. But Hucking has those different audiences. And that's a tale. I'm just a huge tell kind of made our case a little bit there. I know. I don't want it to happen. I'm just being a realist. I'm just saying as much as I don't want it to happen. I'm reading the tea leaves here. And I think he's going to be both the tea leaves for chuckles. It's not looking good when you got more. And I'll say, I mean, that's not like, and get it all. Okay, moving along. This is another bad thing for Chuckles right here. There is new reporting on the Democrats failure in Florida, pop this up. My gal, Emma Vigiland is reporting multiple sources. Democratic and Republican strategists tell Swin 24 that Nixon and Jolly would have won if the Democrats invested in Florida. All of them agreed, left or right, that Dems would have won in Florida, had the national powers that be put in more money and effort. And that is talking about, of course, our gal, Angie Nixon, who is an incredible talent in the Democratic Party. And I said the day after the election, I would never give Chuckles for not investing in her. And so seeing that report right now in Emma's tweet, she cited the sources there below what I read, this is just, this is the problem. And he didn't invest money in her because she's critical of Israel. He never endorsed Zoran Mamdani. Right. And the Senator from New York doesn't endorse the most popular Democratic politician we have right now. That is just an L. That is a miss. That is out of touch. Yeah, and all of us were really, really upset about that the day after the election. It was maybe a two or three point. She worked her ass off. And she worked her ass off. She had very little money, very little help from the National Party. And it just, how do you defend that if you're Chuck Schumer? How do you say that that wasn't a good call to go in and dump money on her? She would have won that race. And I don't think that they realized that we were going to move the needle 10 or 15 points and sometimes 20 points in some of these districts. And that's a shame. That's a shame. And I think Schumer kind of sealed his fate when he made that decision, in my opinion. I agree, all right, Democrats, unfortunately, some of them are continuing to collaborate with fascists pop this up. Scoop, former Senator John Tester, signs on with Palantir as tech firm draws scrutiny from new Congress. My agreement with Palantir is advisory in nature. It is not lobbying, Tester said. I think Palantir has got a good story to tell. And they need to tell it. This is the company owned by Peter Teal. So this is what we're talking about, the era of prostitution politics. John Tester should be collaborating with Democrats and pro-democracy companies to help build a super majority. And studies collaborating with Palantir, whose founder, Peter Teal, wants to dismantle democracy. I mean, those are his words, not mine. He does not think democracy is compatible in the modern world. Well, let's decipher what he means by Palantir has a good story to tell. The story they could tell is that we paid this former Democrat about $2 million, probably, to lobby on behalf of our company. That's the tea leaf here. That's the writing on the wall is he's being paid a lot of money to have this position. And that's the problem with guys like him and other people. And I get it, you got to make a living, you got to go out and work, I understand all that. But don't feed us all this bullshit about Palantir. Has a good story to tell. The story to tell about Palantir is not good at all. And so don't feed us that weak shit. And it just shows this, that these tech oligarchs, they see the winds changing. And so now they're going to continue in the era of prostitution politics and they're going to start buying up people. So they said, oh great, this guy used to be a Democrat. He can go, you know, glad hand with all the senators and he can get them to come our way. And we need a full blown resistance. These fascists aren't going anywhere. If we allow them to continue to incubate, they will come roaring back in such a manner that we can't fix it, that we won't have an election like we had last Tuesday that was glorious and beautiful. And I'm hopeful that the tides turn in the Senate. And I believe Chuck Schumer does too much fascist collaboration for my tastes. His donors cross over the Venn diagram with Trump's donors. It's just too much for me, it's unacceptable for me. So I think that's pretty revealing about the psyche of a lot of establishment Democrats and establishment politicians. So anyway, all right, that's all we have this episode. Pete Hegseth, that is some GCT. Make sure you subscribe. Make sure you subscribe here. Subscribe on wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe on YouTube. Buy my book, Not Today Fascist. And join our sub-stack. We will still be here. You can't cancel us, and we'll be back later with more news.