The debt ceiling is now at $16.7 trillion and the government is running out of money. President Trump and Speaker Pelosi have yet to come to a consensus on a solution to the debt ceiling issue, and the clock is ticking down on the deadline to raise it.
00:03:41.000You know, we caught more people in the month of February on the terrorist watch list than we caught the entire time of the last administration.
00:09:18.000I think we should all refresh our memories today and remember history.
00:09:25.000And who has caused the political violence here in Washington, D.C. by remembering how many times D.C. Metro police were deployed for dangerous riots.
00:09:36.000In 2020, where Antifa and BLM rioters violently raged continuously, even nearly burning down the city, hundreds of police officers were injured and rioters destroyed millions of dollars in property.
00:09:50.000Riots went to such extreme levels in Lafayette Park that Secret Service forced President Trump into the White House bunker.
00:09:59.000But all of the extreme left-wing violence didn't just start in 2020.
00:10:04.000No, it started in 2017 on President Trump's inauguration day.
00:10:09.000But all you hear about is a three-hour riot on one single day, January 6, 2021.
00:10:17.000So let's talk about violent criminals and justice.
00:10:21.000Chief Conti, you've said what we've got to do if we really want to see homicides go down is keep bad guys with guns in jail.
00:10:31.000When they are in jail, they can't be in communities shooting people.
00:10:53.000Mr. Graves, you are the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
00:10:57.000You have the unique ability to prosecute both local and federal cases.
00:11:02.000However, Mr. Graves, your office has declined to prosecute 67% of those arrested in 2022, which means they can't stay in jail like Chief Conti is demanding after his police officers do the hard work of arresting these criminals.
00:11:19.000Instead, you are solely focused on prosecuting January 6 cases from one single day in our history.
00:11:45.000And just yesterday morning, a little innocent 12-year-old girl was shot while sleeping in her own bed by another rampant violent criminal who has probably been previously arrested and not prosecuted.
00:12:00.000What do you think a resident in Anacostia is more afraid of?
00:12:04.000Their child catching a stray bullet on Monday?
00:12:07.000Or a grandma walking through the Capitol more than two years ago?
00:12:14.000Mr. Graves, your decision to not prosecute 67% of the crimes in DC is absolutely criminal itself.
00:12:25.000People who were charged with murder have been arrested on average 11 times before because you refused to keep them in jail like Chief Conti is demanding.
00:12:37.000You have already abused your position by maliciously prosecuting at least 1,000 people from January 6,
00:12:44.000but you recently announced that you're going to arrest at least 1,000 more.
00:12:49.000Let me remind everyone the manner in which you go about your January 6 prosecutions.
00:12:55.000A man named Matthew Perna, who had no criminal record, peacefully entered the Capitol through an open door on January 6.
00:13:11.000He fully cooperated with the FBI and eventually pled guilty to all charges.
00:13:17.000But right before his sentencing, you, Mr. Graves, asked the judge for more time to object to the pre-sentence report,
00:13:26.000by the way, while you weren't prosecuting many of the crimes in DC.
00:13:30.000This was so that you could ask for at least a few more years in prison for the guy that walked around in the Capitol for 20 minutes, not assaulting anyone.
00:13:40.000And this is what you've done repeatedly over and over for those who've pled or have been convicted on January 6.
00:13:47.000Well, two weeks later, Matthew Perna hung himself in his garage.
00:17:20.000MTG, I think, is going to call him by phone.
00:17:21.000Julie, walk us through what happened today, ma'am.
00:17:24.000You've been on this story since January 6th.
00:17:27.000Walk us through why today was so important and so dramatic.
00:17:31.000It was very important because the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded an appearance by D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.
00:17:41.000He is the Biden-appointed United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
00:17:48.000He is handling the entire January 6th criminal prosecution.
00:17:52.000Now a caseload of over 1,000 defendants, as Marjorie said today, promises to double that caseload.
00:17:59.000Meanwhile, the city of D.C. has descended into violent chaos.
00:18:04.000He is ignoring prosecuting repeat offenders in the city as carjacking, gun crimes, homicide, you name it.
00:18:13.000Carjackings, all of these crimes are skyrocketing.
00:18:16.000His attention, and he's unique in U.S. Attorneys because he handles local and federal crimes, his attention from his office, his prosecutors, is almost solely dedicated to continuing to round up arrest and charge mostly misdemeanor offenses related to the four-hour disturbance at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:18:42.080I've got Congressman Green, and I want to come back to you to contextualize this since you know in depth these outrageous charges that these guys are hunting down these 1,000 people for.
00:18:52.720Congressman Green, we just played a five-minute clip from your evisceration of graves in your call for impeachment.
00:19:02.420Do you think you have the goods to do this, ma'am, the receipts?
00:19:06.000Yes, I believe we do have the receipts, and I really hope to see my entire conference get on board with this because, Steve, it's time to end the weaponization of government.
00:19:17.460And Matthew Graves was just number one for articles of impeachment this week.
00:19:22.920This week, as a matter of fact, I'd like to let everyone know, welcome to impeachment week.
00:19:32.260You make the case there that it's the – which nobody's talking about.
00:19:36.000And Julie just brought up, you made the case that the victims here, as much as the families of these J6 people, are the citizens, the honest, hardworking citizens of Washington, D.C.
00:19:47.220that are being preyed upon by these felons and these criminals and these violent criminals while Graves spends all of his time tracking down misdemeanors.
00:19:57.660Is that the theory of your case, that you're trying to protect the folks in D.C.?
00:20:01.160Well, of course, and it's to end the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI and our entire government.
00:20:12.060And the victims of the two-tier justice system are the residents and the people that work in Washington, D.C.
00:20:18.900If you live and work in Washington, D.C., you live under a reign of terror from criminals that roam the streets.
00:20:27.120And it's because people like Matthew Graves, especially Matthew Graves, who is the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, he refuses to prosecute violent crime.
00:20:37.920As a matter of fact, 67% of those arrested in 2022 did not get prosecuted by Matthew Graves.
00:20:47.580Instead, he turned the entire attention of his office and at the full weight of the U.S. attorney's office for the Department of Justice against people like Matthew Perna,
00:21:00.560who walked in the Capitol for 20 minutes through an open door, never assaulted a police officer, never caused a single penny of damage to the Capitol.
00:21:11.140But he committed suicide because of the extreme nature and persecution that Matthew Graves weighs in on these January 6th defendants.
00:21:23.600And that was the example I gave today.
00:21:27.340As a matter of fact, it's the most important thing that Republicans can do is to use the power of impeachment and to use the power of the Holman rule
00:21:37.820and to use the power we have in appropriations to end the reign of terror that has been brought on by Biden's Department of Justice and FBI
00:21:46.940and the weaponization of government against conservatives all over America, pro-life protesters,
00:21:53.980parents trying to hold their school boards accountable, January 6th defendants, Catholics.
00:22:25.760I've already filed articles of impeachment on Christopher Wray because we know his abuse as director of the FBI has been unprecedented.
00:22:34.720Do you think you have the conference, as compelling as these arguments are, as dramatic as these arguments are, as in your face the evidence is,
00:22:45.820do you believe that you have the backing and support of the members of your conference to move forward on Bray and Graves immediately, ma'am?
00:22:54.360I don't believe I have their support immediately.
00:23:08.140I'm calling on people that care about justice, that care about the integrity of our government, that care about our Constitution.
00:23:16.020I'm calling on them to fall in line and bring in as much support as possible because it's the people's support that matters.
00:23:25.900Steve, I don't have to have the support in the conference to file articles of impeachment.
00:23:30.560If I have the support of the American people and they let my colleagues know, I believe that's the way that I will gain the support for these articles of impeachment because it's the Republican voters.
00:23:47.800And it's people that are sick and tired of the lies from the Democrats and sick and tired of the empty promises and sick and tired of the two-tier justice system.
00:23:56.700It's those people's support that will bring the support that I need in the conference to get the job done and impeach all of these people.
00:24:44.040And that's why I am going to be asking and begging for the support of Republicans all over the country to call every single Republican colleague I have here in Washington, D.C.
00:24:54.440and the House of Representatives, and tell them to get on board because we have a job to do and we have a country to save.
00:25:02.060Well, you have the support of the War Room in this audience, no doubt.
00:25:05.560Congressman, how do people get to you?
00:25:07.140What's the best way to go and find out more about this?
00:25:09.260I'll ask everyone to follow me on my social media.
00:25:13.380That's on Getter, on Twitter, on Truth Social, other social media.
00:25:18.660I ask everyone to pay attention and follow along.
00:25:22.160You can also be watching our hearings.
00:26:50.180So he could sort of tone down and placate the left because there was criticism that no one had been charged with anything close to insurrection.
00:26:58.760So Matthew Graves takes over the office.
00:27:00.920Within eight weeks, he hands down this Civil War-era statute.
00:27:06.160The last time DOJ tried to bring seditious conspiracy charges against people in 2010 was laughed out of federal court by a Michigan judge.
00:27:16.160Not only did he bring seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers, he did it in June of 2022 against members of the Proud Boys.
00:27:23.620Of course, he just got four convictions on that charge.
00:27:26.620He has six convictions of the Oath Keepers on this extremely rare count.
00:27:31.240In addition to that, Steve, he is seeking outlandish prison sentences.
00:27:36.660Representative Biggs, and I want to credit, of course, MTG for her courage.
00:27:40.840She's really just has no equal in terms of her courage and bravery, how she articulates these arguments.
00:27:47.520Most Republicans on that panel today sat there and refused to confront Matthew Graves for the selective political abusive prosecution of their own voters.
00:33:43.720Not just continuing to fund Matthew Graves's political persecution operation against Trump supporters.
00:33:49.480You had two Republican representatives today, Representative Timmons, Representative Armstrong.
00:33:54.680They slobbered all over these D.C. officials, and one of them actually offered to give Matthew Graves more money to help him hire more prosecutors.
00:34:05.700This is on top of the $34 million in new funding the Department of Justice got this year to hire almost 100 temporary lawyers.
00:34:15.160Who are these two guys, Timmons and who's the other one?
00:34:30.520I want the posse to call those two congressmen right now and give them the old what for or whatever comes to mind.
00:34:37.940They offered to give him more prosecutors?
00:34:41.480What one of them said, and it's on my Twitter page so people can go and double check, whatever resources, we're happy to give you more resources.
00:34:49.800If you need more money to hire more prosecutors, that's what we'll do.
00:34:53.060As if this is a resource issue for Matthew Graves, not a political crusade that he's on, doing the Democrats' dirty work and his own dirty work, by the way, destroying people, causing some to commit suicide, destroying lives over misdemeanors.
00:35:11.060Well, he lets carjackers, well, you know, people running around D.C. terrorizing his own residents.
00:35:18.220And so you have at least two Republicans who are offering to help.
00:35:22.680We want to help Matthew Graves and Muriel Bowser.
00:35:24.980We want to give you more of our money so you can use it to go round up and arrest some more of our voters.
00:40:55.600So Carrie Lake is going to be in court tomorrow.
00:40:59.280There's going to be a trial starting early.
00:41:00.500We're going to be doing wall-to-wall coverage.
00:41:02.760The reason they stole the governorship was not just about her voter integrity.
00:41:06.820It was because she said, I'm going to use this clause in the Constitution that Jeff Clark and Cuccinell and others have come up with,
00:41:17.300and what I'm going to do is declare an invasion on the southern border to protect Arizona because I have the right as governor to do it,
00:41:23.840and I'm going to declare the terrorist group of the cartels.
00:41:30.460Cartels are going to be terrorist groups.
00:41:31.620And I'm going to drop the hammer immediately, and that's when the cartels and everybody else went and got involved and made sure she's not the governor until we win it in court starting tomorrow.
00:41:54.380So thanks for having me on, and thanks for having my colleague, Wade Miller, on, who's one of the architects of this as well, along with Ken.
00:42:01.720And so this goes back to Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution, and it gives the power to the states when they are actually invaded or they're in imminent danger thereof.
00:42:14.260So it doesn't actually even need to be an actual invasion, but we know there's an actual invasion taking place on the southern border in Arizona, Texas, et cetera,
00:42:22.560and gives them the power essentially to repel that, to wage war, to do what is necessary in order to protect the borders and integrity of the United States.
00:42:32.480Indeed, Steve, as a historical matter, this power is so uncontroversial in history and so much of a hands-off in terms of the courts saying,
00:42:41.580look, this is a question for the states, right?
00:42:45.080It's a question for the political process that this basic same clause existed in the Articles of Confederation,
00:42:52.080and you know that every civic student at least used to learn, maybe students, you know, being influenced by Ibram Kendi in critical race theory don't learn it anymore,
00:43:02.140but that the Articles of Confederation were abandoned because they were too weak.
00:43:05.980So here we have a clause where the framers, even when they did the Articles of Confederation and then quickly scrapped those,
00:43:12.560they carried that clause over into the U.S. Constitution because it was so obvious that it was necessary as a state power.
00:43:19.480And you're right that Carrie Lake, on day one, was going to declare an invasion and then use the governor's powers in Arizona to repulse that invasion along the Arizona border.
00:43:34.480I think that sent fear waves, shock waves through the Biden administration and I also think through the cartel community.
00:43:40.820Because the cartels or, you know, as sometimes is used as a term of art, transnational criminal organizations, they're running parts of the border.
00:43:49.680They're running parts even in the United States and they need to be dealt with.
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00:47:00.020I had my amazing border policy called Defend Arizona, and I thank Wade for talking about it and recognizing how transformative our border policy was.
00:47:13.940But we don't need to rely, as sovereign states, on the federal government when they are failing us in the Guarantee Clause, Article 4, Section 4.
00:47:22.040We have a constitutional right to protect our citizens from an invasion, and that is exactly what I talked about from day one, practically, of my campaign.
00:47:31.980As a matter of fact, I got my team together, and I said we will put together the strongest border policy.
00:47:38.820I want to use every single resource we have to secure our border because I recognize that the fastest way to bring down a country is to open up the borders.
00:47:47.420Kerry Lake, that's why they came after her heart.
00:47:51.800If you weren't out there and watching that race and we were out there, that's why they came after her, the cartels, the business interests, everything.
00:47:58.180They realized she was using the Constitution to repel an invasion of the state of Arizona.
00:48:05.380Real quickly, Jeff, when she says a sovereign state, the apparatus in town, the administrative state, their heads blow up.
00:48:12.180What does she mean by that, and what's the power of that phrase?
00:48:16.440So, you know, their heads blow up, Steve, because really the doctrines of federalism that recognize the independent sovereignty of the states and the doctrines of the separation of powers are things the left has been fighting against to get rid of or water down, and they've watered it down a lot since our founding.
00:48:33.880So those are magic words that resonate in the ear of D.C. and cause them to go into a panic.
00:48:40.700And, Steve, what has caused, I think, Texas not to want to push forward on this as fast as governor candidate Carrie Lake should have been governor but for the shenanigans would do is that they say they're worried about 18 U.S.C. 242,
00:48:59.960which is a statute that goes back basically to the Reconstruction era and later was added a protection for aliens that basically says if the federal government sees that states or localities are enforcing the law differentially against aliens,
00:49:17.480then that's a violation of this statute. And so they're saying they fear what will happen to their agents, to their state guard who might repulse the invasion, that the Civil Rights Division, which I've talked about before on your show, is really the shock troops will come after them.
00:49:33.640They may even seek the death penalty, Steve, because that's in this statute.
00:49:38.280And so we have a paper up on the Center for Renewing America, which your viewers and listeners can go to, that explains why that argument is complete bunk.
00:49:46.860That argument would never stand up, and there are no cases that say that.
00:49:51.000And look, Steve, you know, Pancho Villa was repulsed by New Mexico.
00:49:54.640The idea that this statute is intended to constrain that constitutional power given to Arizona, Texas, et cetera, is ridiculous.
00:50:05.100No, it's a lie. I want to make sure we get that paper and we'll push it out.
00:50:08.400Real quickly before I lose you, Clark, is MTG, is she on to something?
00:50:13.240Do you believe, and you're going to either be attorney general or White House counsel in the second term, do you believe,
00:50:20.540Steve, that makes their heads blow up, wouldn't it, Ari Melber, do you believe, Clark, that Matthew Graves,
00:50:26.820we have the goods and the receipts on Graves to start articles of impeachment on this U.S. attorney?
00:50:32.920Steve, I think it's an incredibly apparent and weaponized example of selective prosecution, right?
00:50:41.700So you have Matthew Graves who's, you know, turning a blind eye toward actual violent crime that real residents of D.C. care about
00:50:49.420because he can enforce both local crimes as the U.S. attorney in D.C.
00:50:53.760It's a unique position and exclusively federal crimes.
00:50:57.680So he's really interested in the federal side of the House.
00:51:00.920He's looking for, as Julie Kelly calls them, the Memaws, you know, walking around the Capitol building,
00:51:05.760say, isn't this great? I'm staying inside the rope lines.
00:51:08.240They're high-priority targets for prosecution, but, you know, he's not going after, you know, criminals
00:51:15.040who might tend to more often be Democrats, Steve, or supported by Democrats.
00:51:19.980I think it's a very clear case of a violation of equal protection to go after one group of people
00:51:27.400who are, you know, Republicans, who are conservatives, who are MAGA,
00:51:32.260and to leave off to the side, you know, more pressing, more urgent, more public-protecting
00:51:38.980criminal enforcement in the District of Columbia.
00:51:42.180I haven't seen a clearer case of that.