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Back at our desk this morning, Congressman Al Green, Democrat of Texas, here to talk about your new impeachment effort.
You came to the floor to offer this over the president's remarks on Gaza.
We were just playing them for our viewers in case they missed them.
Where is the crime here committed by the president with this proposal?
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Well, thank you for asking because impeachment does not require a crime that is statutory.
Many people think so, so it gives me a great opportunity to explain.
Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution indicates that one can be impeached and that one is the president and then there are others for high crimes, misdemeanors, or, pardon me, felonies, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
And this is important because many people assume that that means a statutory offense.
It does not.
And the word misdemeanor means misdeeds aside from some minor offense.
Misdeeds are those things that will shock your conscience.
So a president can literally be impeached for shocking one's conscience.
In 1868, Andrew Johnson was impeached for saying bad things about Congress, speaking ill of Congress.
He was impeached.
It was Article 10 of those articles of impeachment.
Hence, we can impeach the president for things that he might do that are immoral or that hurt society.
And the president talks about moving people from Gaza to some other place.
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Now, he hasn't talked to the people who live there, the Palestinians.
They talk about them as though they're animals that can be herded and pushed and moved, and with some assumption that they're going to have great appreciation for what they will do in taking them from their homeland.
Let's listen to the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt yesterday at the briefing when she was asked about the president's comments.
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On Gaza, the president has spent basically his entire public career criticizing foreign entanglements, nation building, sending American troops to fight abroad, particularly in the Middle East.
This plan seems like it could ultimately involve all of those things.
Can you explain this reversal and how building and owning Gaza squares with America First foreign policy?
And his goal is lasting peace in the Middle East for all people in the region.
And as I said in my opening remarks, we've had the same people pushing the same solutions to this problem for decades.
And it's been made very clear to the president that the United States needs to be involved in this rebuilding effort to ensure stability in the region for all people.
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But that does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza.
It does not mean American taxpayers will be funding this effort.
You don't consult them and then you make a plan to deal with where they'll live and how they will live.
That's an insult.
And I would also add this.
For those people who think that this is all just something that will blow over, remember this.
The president was serious when he said he wanted to eviscerate the Department of Education.
Now, the Department of Education was something that Congress created, and the president can't just do that with a stroke of a pen with an executive order.
And he's serious about it because he has said publicly that he wants his Department of Education person, the Secretary of the Department of Education, he wants that person to put herself out of a job.
There are many things that may be placed in these articles of impeachment, but it should be because he's unfit to be president, unfit.
And when these impeachment signs start going up around the country, when people see these signs, I assure you, the pressure is going to be on Congress to do something.
unidentified
Impeachment doesn't mean that he will be removed from office, but it will say to the country that this is what we stand for.
It's been said that the protests don't have a plan.
I watched you yesterday with the Democrat Party out protesting everything that Elon Musk is trying to do for the American people.
The USAD is the 100% of money laundering scheme around the world kickbacks back to the Democrat Party, whether it's through the Clinton Foundation and Haiti, $4.4 billion and $84 million to her daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
All y'all have is impeachments and race and gender, et cetera, and you actually do nothing for the people of America today.
I think the Democrats should sit back and let America see what it's like to reduce the people in government to wasteful spending.
And all y'all can do is just complain and be negative.
When we did not impeach him for that act, he now takes a license to try to eviscerate to the extent that he can to gut these other agencies, the FBI more specifically, and the CIA.
So the question is, aside what you said about USAID, which can be refuted, but the question is, do you want a president who has been immune, given some degree of immunity by the Supreme Court, who now knows that he can pardon people who participate in an insurrection and send that signal to others, so he is above the law to a certain extent?
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He has the power to pardon, which means that if you commit a crime, a federal crime, you can be pardoned by him.
Trump receives his instructions on Israel-Palestine from his Israeli-born donor, Miriam Adelson.
She has already donated $100 million to Trump in exchange for Trump recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
The larger scheme is for the Israelis to suck the United States into another war with Iran.
So when the body bags start coming back, you'll know who to thank.
Have a nice day.
Well, I'm totally against any additional war.
I'm a peacemaker.
I believe that too much suffering has already taken place.
I also know that the laws of proportionality are not applied by Mr. Netanyahu because what they did to Gaza just eviscerated, obliterated, just decimated Gaza with a good many dollars from the American public, the American people, tax dollars.
Congressman Pete Aguilera, who is the number three House Democrat, was asked yesterday about your impeachment offer, and he said it's not a focus of the caucus.
Your response.
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Well, I think he's right.
I don't differ with him.
By the way, he's a good man.
I don't differ with him.
It's not a focus now, but the impeachment, the march toward impeachment started yesterday.
So what, are you concerned that putting the impeachment on the table right now is making the party look less serious and if you were to move to it later?
unidentified
Well, first of all, I haven't said that we will impeach tomorrow or bring articles tomorrow.
Laying the Impeachment Foundation00:01:39
unidentified
I've not said that.
And it makes the party look more serious.
These signs are going to go up around the country.
Yes, back in 2017, when you impeached the president before he took office and everything, now I want to know what your real opinion of President Trump is right now, why you want to do the impeachment again.
Thank you.
Well, thank you, sir.
My opinion is now what it was then.
I said then that he was unfit to be president.
I brought the articles of impeachment, laid the foundation for his impeachment.
He surrounds himself with billionaires, and they seem to believe that the rich need more to do more, meaning the billionaire class, and that the poor can do more with less.
These, honestly, they see the government of the United States as a tool to acquire greater wealth than what they already have.
The president himself, with this meme that he came out with, has made just an untold amount of money.