00:00:00.000and failing to provide rescue, including secondary strikes against shipwrecked survivors
00:00:05.220who were ordered Kumba and abandonment of shipwrecked survivors at sea,
00:00:12.460thereby endangering members of our armed forces in future military engagements
00:00:17.380by encouraging adversaries to subject American service members to the same treatment.
00:00:23.160By subjecting persons merely suspected of criminal conduct to lethal military force without judicial process, without congressional authorization, and without establishing a lawful basis for treating such persons or vessels as military targets,
00:00:43.600Secretary Hexeth arrogated to himself and the executive branch the roles of judge, jury, and executioner,
00:00:51.160and asserted the unilateral power to determine who may live and who may die.
00:00:56.440Such a power is foreign to the rule of law, repugnant to the legal traditions and fundamental values of the United States and the Western world,
00:01:04.500and contrary to United States law and customary international law.
00:01:08.900This conduct undermined the integrity and credibility of the United States and its armed forces, damaged the diplomatic standing of the United States, and injured the interests of the nation.
00:01:21.000Secretary Hegseth engaged in this scheme of course, or course of conduct, through the following means.
00:01:27.6201. Secretary Hegseth authorized strikes, beginning on September 2, 2025, without authorization from Congress, pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the United States Constitution,
00:01:41.280and in the absence of a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization for the use of military force, or a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States,
00:01:52.300its territories or possessions, or its armed forces, as provided in Chapter 33 of Title 50
00:01:59.000United States Code. Two, Secretary Hegseth ordered and oversaw the strike campaign against
00:02:05.400seagoing vessels alleged to be smuggling narcotics in international waters, comprising of at least
00:02:12.02069 separate attack events, 46 in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 21 in the Caribbean Sea,
00:02:21.720and 2. in unspecified locations, which at least struck 73 vessels and killed at least 243 individuals.
00:02:31.060In doing so, A. Secretary Hegseth displaced the statutory framework established by Sections 70503 and 70504 of Title 46 United States Code,
00:02:44.520under which Congress expressly treated maritime narcotic offenses, including conduct occurring
00:02:51.360on the high seas, as federal crimes subject to apprehension, prosecution, and trial in an
00:02:57.540appropriate United States District Court, and instead treated such offenses as predicates for
00:03:04.560lethal military targeting. B. Secretary Hegseth disregarded the statutory restrictions in Section
00:03:13.160274 and 275 of Title X United States Code, governing direct participation by members
00:03:20.100of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in civilian law enforcement activities,
00:03:25.520including federal narcotics enforcement by employing lethal military force against persons
00:03:31.280suspected of drug trafficking, absent any congressionally enacted authorization for
00:03:38.000the use of military force or other statutory authorization for such direct military action.
00:03:44.780C. Secretary Hegseth disregarded the maritime law enforcement framework established by Sections
00:03:51.040102 and 522 of Title 14 United States Code, as well as Section 279 of Title 10 United States
00:03:59.760Code, under which only the Coast Guard is authorized to conduct interdiction, search,
00:04:05.640seizure, and arrest, and he did so by directing members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine
00:04:11.700Corps to employ lethal military force in place of the law enforcement processes.
00:04:17.480Three, Secretary Hegseth established targeting guidelines for such strikes on August 5,
00:04:23.3602025, by issuing an executive order, EXORD, directing the use of the United States military
00:04:31.380force against persons alleged to be members or affiliates of certain designated terrorist
00:04:41.140A. Secretary Hegseth established guidelines that I.
00:04:45.640Used designated terrorist organizations as a targeting category, notwithstanding the
00:04:51.300term is not a congressionally created designation conferring authority to use military force.
00:04:57.800Double I did not require positive identification of any targeted person, but instead required only reasonable certainty that such person was a member or affiliated of a DTO, a threshold lower than the near certainty standard established for drone strikes on suspected Al-Qaeda militants during the congressionally authorized global war on terror.
00:05:21.800and IIII did not require the presence of weapons or narcotics on targeted vessels
00:05:29.180alleged to be smuggling narcotics in association with a DTO.
00:05:51.800in the War Room, Tuesday, 10 November, Year of Our Lord, 2026, the Marine Corps birthday.
00:06:01.260Four, Secretary Hexeth, in the course of such strikes, oversaw orders resulting in the denial
00:06:07.320of quarter two and the failure to provide timely rescue for shipwrecked survivors of initial
00:06:12.360strikes, including A. On September 2, 2025, during the first strike of the campaign,
00:06:18.240the United States Navy attacked a seagoing vessel carrying 11 persons
00:06:22.480between the coast of Venezuela and the nearby Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:06:27.500The strike destroyed and capsized the vessel.
00:06:30.320Approximately 45 minutes later, while two survivors clung to the wreckage,
00:06:34.460a secondary strike was ordered killing both survivors.
00:06:37.700In doing so, Secretary Hexeth has endangered members of our armed forces
00:06:41.560in future military engagements by encouraging adversaries
00:06:45.140to subject American service members to the same treatment and be on December 30 of 2025
00:06:51.320United States Southern Command attacked three vessels approximately 400 nautical miles
00:06:56.560southwest of Ocos Guatemala and the eastern Pacific Ocean killing three persons and leaving
00:07:02.380eight others shipwrecked. Although the campaign had been underway for approximately four months
00:07:07.380no recovery assets had been pre-positioned to rescue survivors. Rescue assets did not arrive
00:07:13.660until approximately 45 hours after the strikes,
00:07:16.940by which time all eight shipwrecked survivors had died at sea.
00:07:20.800In doing so, Secretary Hexeth has endangered members of our armed forces
00:07:25.100in future military engagements by encouraging adversaries
00:07:28.640to subject American service members to the same treatment.
00:07:31.940Five, Secretary Hexeth took actions to preempt, constrain,
00:07:36.060and overcome independent legal objections within the Department of Defense
00:07:40.180concerning the lawfulness of such strikes, including A.
00:07:43.660Secretary Hexeth removed the senior-most Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force without stating a reason or cause,
00:07:52.100thereby foreseeably chilling the exercise of independent legal judgment by Judge Advocates,
00:07:57.100tasked with advising military commanders on the lawfulness of combat operations,
00:08:02.540and subsequently stating at a Pentagon press conference on February 25, 2025,
00:08:06.820that he did not want military lawyers to serve as roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander-in-chief,
00:08:13.660B. Secretary Hexeth employed an interagency group of lawyers comprising four career officials
00:08:20.040and four political appointees from the Department of Defense, the Office of the Joint Chiefs
00:08:24.760of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House, and the Office of Legal Counsel
00:08:30.460to develop a classified memorandum purporting to establish a legal basis for such strikes
00:08:35.860and to address anticipated objections to their execution falsely asserting the following.
00:08:40.940I. The United States is engaged in a non-international armed conflict, NIAC, with 24 Latin American designated terrorist organizations, DTOs,
00:08:52.840thereby attempting to displace the governing law enforcement framework as established in paragraph 2
00:08:57.860and substitute an armed conflict framework for the conduct of military operations against such organizations,
00:09:04.400Despite the absence of congressional authorization for such military action, notwithstanding, one, pursuant to Little v. Barham, 1804, and Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 2014, an executive branch legal memorandum cannot enlarge authority conferred by Congress or legalized conduct otherwise unauthorized by statute, double I.
00:09:29.540The strikes do not constitute hostilities within the meaning of Chapter 33 of Title 50 United States Code
00:09:35.920because they do not place United States personnel in danger,
00:09:39.940presumptively on the basis that such vessels are incapable of self-defense,
00:09:44.420a predicate that would likewise mean that any military action conducted by drone
00:09:48.480or any airstrike against a target lacking air defense capabilities
00:09:52.640cannot also constitute hostilities in Triple I.
00:09:56.120The DTOs are engaged in armed violence against the security forces of allied nations, including
00:10:02.320Mexico, and such violence is financed through cocaine trafficking such that the strikes
00:10:07.160may be characterized as attacks against cocaine shipments and that the deaths of persons aboard
00:10:12.080targeted vessels as collateral damage, a rationale inconsistent with the EXORD targeting guidelines
00:10:17.920described in paragraph 3, which did not require narcotics to be present aboard a targeted
00:10:22.740vessel, and instead authorized targeting based on alleged DTO membership or affiliation.
00:10:28.880Secretary Hexeth abused the authority and trust vested in him as Secretary of Defense,
00:10:33.980not only by directing the unlawful use of lethal military force, resulting in the summary
00:10:39.380execution of at least 243 persons in international waters, but also by using his office to compel
00:10:46.220members of the armed forces to carry out such operations under false legal authorities that
00:10:51.460he caused to be constructed and imposed upon the chain of command.
00:10:55.240In denying quarter and refusing rescue, Secretary Hexeth endangered members of the United States
00:11:00.660Armed Forces in the future military engagements by encouraging adversaries to subject American
00:12:47.980The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives shall have the sole power
00:12:52.140of impeachment, and that civil officers of the United States, including the Secretary
00:12:56.420of Defense, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason,
00:13:01.780bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:13:06.220In his conduct while Secretary of Defense, Peter Brian Hexeth, in violation of his oath
00:13:11.660to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully discharge
00:13:16.140the duties of his office, abused the powers entrusted to him by retaliating against a
00:13:21.940member of Congress for constitutionally protected speech and attempting to subject a member
00:13:27.480of a coordinate branch of government to executive branch punishment for the exercise of his
00:13:32.540legislative and oversight responsibilities in that. On November 18, 2025, Senator Mark Kelly,
00:13:39.180a retired United States Navy Captain and National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut,
00:13:45.980who flew 39 combat missions during the first Gulf War, and who sits on the Senate Armed
00:13:51.260Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared in his official capacity as
00:13:56.060a senator in a video addressed to members of the United States Armed Forces stating,
00:14:00.140Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. Despite such a statement being consistent with
00:14:07.220decisions in United States v. Kenan, 1969, and United States v. Kelly, 1973, Secretary Hegseth
00:14:16.200weaponized the Department of Defense to retaliate against and intimidate Senator Mark Kelly for such
00:14:21.900a statement. Secretary Hegseth did so despite the fact that Senator Kelly is a sitting United States
00:14:28.380senator who cannot fulfill his role in representative government if he fears executive branch reprisals
00:14:34.200for expressing his views. As the Supreme Court held in Bond v. Floyd, 1966, representative
00:14:41.220government requires that legislators be given the widest latitude to express their views on issues
00:14:46.880of policy. Members of Congress, moreover, enjoy speech or debate immunity. Under Article 1, Section
00:14:53.9606, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, and Senator Kelly, as a retired service member,
00:15:02.040is entitled to the full breadth of First Amendment protection.
00:15:06.400Using the powers of his office, Secretary Hexeth retaliated against and sought to intimidate
00:15:12.180United States Senator Mark Kelly for his statement through a scheme or course of conduct
00:15:17.420intended to interfere with Congress's constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch
00:15:22.760grossly expand Article II powers to expense of both the legislative and judicial branches of
00:15:29.180government and to establish a precedent that would chill the protected speech of millions
00:15:33.520of retired United States service members and inflict irreparable harm upon the First Amendment
00:15:38.480freedoms. Secretary Hexeth engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means.
00:15:44.220One, on November 24th, 2025, the Department of Defense, through a social media post on X,
00:15:50.840threatened that Senator Mark Kelly could be recalled to active duty for court-martial proceedings
00:15:56.000or administrative measures for his statement, too. On November 25, 2025, Secretary Hegseth
00:16:03.140directed the Secretary of the Navy to review Senator Kelly, three. On January 5, 2026,
00:16:09.860Secretary Hegseth issued a secretarial letter of censure against Senator Kelly for A, saying you
00:16:16.240can refuse illegal orders, B, saying he would always defend the Constitution, C, questioning
00:16:23.060the legality of military operations as a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence
00:16:28.840Committees, D, criticizing military leadership, Hexeth, for surrounding themselves himself
00:16:35.200with yes men, and E, allegedly accusing Secretary Hexeth of war crimes, 4, in the letter of
00:16:42.860ensure Secretary Hexeth also threatens Senator Kelly with criminal prosecution or further
00:16:48.480administrative action, including the reduction of Senator Kelly's retired military grade.
00:16:53.700Should the senator continue to question the legality of military operations or criticize
00:16:58.880Secretary Hexeth? Five, in response to a January 12, 2026 complaint filed by Senator Mark Kelly
00:17:05.840against Secretary Hexeth for retaliating against and intimidating the senator for his First Amendment
00:17:11.940protected speech, Secretary Hexeth filed a memorandum of opposition to Senator Kelly's
00:17:17.200motion for a preliminary injunction, egregiously asserting A, Senator Kelly as a retired naval
00:17:23.820officer has diminished First Amendment protections, B, Department of Defense actions against Senator
00:17:29.700Kelly's constitutional rights due to his statements relating to military affairs and his being a
00:17:36.120retired naval officer, constitute non-justiciable military personnel decisions.
00:17:42.060C. Secretary Hex says opinions supersede the court's jurisdiction to determine whether
00:17:47.180the government could censure, threaten, and financially punish Senator Kelly because of
00:17:51.760his speech, and D. Senator Kelly is required to exhaust military administrative remedies
00:17:56.680before seeking relief in an Article III court, thereby seeking to place the adjudication of
00:18:02.500Senator Kelly's constitutional rights within military processes controlled by the executive
00:18:07.120branch. Thus, in addition to abusing the powers of the Office of Secretary of Defense for politically
00:18:13.480motivated reprisal against Senator Kelly, for the Senator's criticism of conduct implicating
00:18:20.600potential war crimes, Secretary Hegseth grossly violated or sought to violate the separation of
00:18:27.040powers by attempting to subordinate both the legislative and judicial branches in matters
00:18:31.860concerning constitutional rights to the authority of the Department of Defense.
00:18:36.060In the same effort, Secretary Hexeth sought without precedent to extend to retired service
00:18:41.520members the diminished First Amendment protections applicable to active duty service members under
00:18:47.220Parker v. Levy in 1974, including retired service members serving in Congress and exercising
00:18:53.860constitutional oversight over the military.
00:18:56.020He further asserted in substance that the military, rather than Article III courts,
00:19:01.460possesses supremacy to determine the constitutional rights of civilians
00:19:04.900and to adjudicate whether its own actions conform to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
00:19:10.900At minimum, with respect to the speech of retired service members,
00:19:14.560despite such position being in flagrant conflict with Marbury v. Madison, 1803,
00:19:20.780which holds that it is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department
00:19:24.720to say what the law is, not the military.
00:19:27.860The result of such effort, had Secretary Hexeth been successful,
00:19:32.160would have subjected the speech and congressional oversight activities
00:19:35.000of nearly 20% of the current Congress,
00:19:37.160and whatever proportion of future Congresses may consist of retired service members,
00:19:42.480as well as the speech of millions of other retired service members
00:19:45.600to the will and discretion of the Department of Defense,
00:19:48.540without any immediate avenue of recourse outside the Department
00:19:51.900to vindicate their constitutional rights.
00:19:54.440Such a result would constitute one of the most extraordinary expansions of executive branch power in the history of the United States.
00:20:02.100In all of this, Secretary Hegseth abused the powers of the Department of Defense
00:20:06.640by retaliating against and attempting to intimidate a sitting United States senator
00:20:10.780through the threats of punishment for speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution
00:20:16.220in an effort to deter that senator from fulfilling his constitutional role in overseeing the executive branch
00:20:22.840In doing so, Secretary Hegseth weaponized the Department of Defense to chill a core function
00:20:29.120of the legislative branch, encroach upon the constitutional role of the judicial branch
00:20:34.120by seeking to insulate such retaliation for meaningful judicial review, and through the
00:20:39.440precedent he sought to establish, place the First Amendment rights of millions of United
00:20:43.740States veterans at risk of irreparable harm.
00:20:47.000Wherefore, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he
00:20:51.940will remain a threat to the Constitution and the separation of powers if allowed to remain
00:20:56.840in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties, the rule of
00:21:01.840law, and the constitutional liberties entrusted to his protection. Peter O'Brien Hexeth thus
00:21:07.320warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold in joy
00:21:12.540any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. Article 7, Kidnapping of
00:21:18.460a sovereign foreign leader. The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives
00:21:23.740shall have the sole power of impeachment, and that civil officers of the United States,
00:21:28.540including the Secretary of Defense, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and
00:21:33.020conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. In his conduct of the
00:21:38.720Office of Secretary of Defense, and in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute
00:21:43.900the Office of Secretary of Defense, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend
00:21:48.960the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care
00:21:54.080that the laws be faithfully executed, especially during the commission of war, Peter Brian Hexeth
00:21:59.940has abused the powers of the Department of Defense in that. Using the powers of his office,
00:22:05.000Secretary of Defense Peter Hexeth directed the Department of Defense to carry out an unprecedented
00:22:10.320military operation code name, Absolute Resolve, to capture and kidnap President Nicolas Maduro,
00:22:17.100the leader of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and his wife Celia Flores from Venezuela,
00:22:22.940an act of war against a sovereign country. Executed under the guise of narcotics law enforcement,
00:22:29.800though in actuality intended to assert U.S. control over Venezuela's oil reserves.
00:22:34.740In doing so, he gambled the lives of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps personnel in order to facilitate the illegal taking of national oil.
00:22:44.540To wit, immediately following such attack, Secretary Hexeth appeared alongside President Donald J. Trump,
00:22:50.660during which the president announced in reference to Venezuela,
00:22:53.760we're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
00:23:01.500So we don't have to be involved with having somebody else get in.
00:23:07.300And we have the same situation that we had.
00:24:26.540In doing so, one, Secretary Hexeth executed unlawful orders affecting the removal of the president of a sovereign nation, placed boots on the ground, conducted preparatory bombardments, inflicted substantial casualties, and subsequently caused regime change, each of which constitutes acts of war.
00:24:47.2602. Secretary Hexeth executed unlawful orders violating Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the United States Constitution by I, ordering United States Armed Forces to commit an act of war against Venezuela without a declaration of war by Congress against such nation and I, making rules concerning captors on land, a power specifically vested in Congress, where Congress had made no rules authorizing or otherwise applicable to such operations in 3.
00:25:17.260Secretary Hexeth executed unlawful orders and contribution of Section 2C of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
00:25:30.700Section 1541C of Title 50 United States Code,
00:25:34.680by entering United States Armed Forces into hostilities in Venezuela on January 3, 2026,
00:25:40.680without a declaration of war and specific statutory authorization
00:25:45.060or a national emergency created by attack upon the United States,
00:25:49.400its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
00:25:52.600Through these actions, Secretary Hexeth knowingly directed United States Armed Forces
00:25:57.160into hostilities against a sovereign foreign nation
00:25:59.980without clear constitutional or specific statutory authority,
00:26:04.200employing military force of a nature and magnitude rising to the level of constitutional war,
00:26:09.080In doing so, Secretary Hegseth usurped Congress's constitutional authority over war
00:26:14.840and transformed the Department of Defense into an instrument for objectives extending far beyond the apprehension of Nicolas Maduro
00:26:22.320for purposes of narcotics law enforcement, including regime change and the acquisition of foreign OWA.
00:26:28.960In all of this, Secretary Hegseth abused the powers of the Department of Defense,
00:26:33.600violated laws and treaty obligations of the United States,
00:26:36.820and subordinated the constitutional allocation of war powers to executive objectives
00:26:41.640neither authorized nor approved by Congress.
00:26:44.800Wherefore, Secretary of Defense Peter Hexeth by such conduct has demonstrated
00:26:49.120that he will remain a threat to the Constitution and the well-being of United States military personnel
00:26:54.120if allowed to remain in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.
00:27:00.260Peter Brian Hexeth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office,
00:27:04.920and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the
00:27:09.940United States. Article 8, Unlawful War in Yemen. The Constitution provides that the House of
00:27:16.120Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that civil officers of the United
00:27:20.880States, including the Secretary of Defense, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and
00:27:25.760conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. In its conduct, while
00:27:31.620Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth, in violation of his oath to support and defend
00:27:36.360the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to
00:27:45.660take care that the laws be faithfully executed, especially with regard to the Commission of
00:27:50.280War, has abused the powers of the Department in that, using the powers of his office, Secretary
00:27:56.900of Defense Peter Hegseth directed the Department of Defense in a manner leading to the deaths
00:28:01.500of an estimated 224 civilians as well as approximately 500 to 600 Houthi fighters through the initiation
00:28:09.960and direction of Operation Rough Rider.
00:28:15.100The operation comprised more than 1,100 strikes against targets in Yemen over approximately
00:35:48.760Wade Miller, I want to bring you in from CRA.
00:35:51.440You are a Marine who is here tonight to help us commemorate the birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
00:35:59.120I think the 251st, because the Marine Corps is older than our nation.
00:36:05.220But we had to intrude on that, Wade Miller, to actually go through this impeachment process for Pete Hegseth, which we've been covering all day.
00:36:14.320And I felt it was I thought it was very important for the audience to listen to these charges and to see exactly what they're charging Pete Hexeth for.
00:36:24.500Because, folks, this is the kickoff to this like a pregame for what is about to happen to the entire Trump administration.
00:36:33.840Wade, Wade Miller, walk me through your thoughts about what you just saw and heard, sir.
00:36:38.820yeah at the end of the day i mean principles are principles and but that's not what what is going
00:36:47.460on here what's going on here is we have someone who is angry he wants vengeance because he was
00:36:52.920endorsed against and lost his election and decided to come up here and posit that the libertarian
00:36:58.900conception on foreign policy is the only one out there and that anything that goes against that is
00:37:05.060de facto high crime or misdemeanor. And the reality is, there's a lot of different viewpoints
00:37:10.680on what is constitutionally allowed in terms of war powers. There's Article I, there's Article
00:37:16.380II, there's War Powers Act, there's all sorts of jurisprudence on this. Multiple administrations
00:37:21.440have had very similar views on a more expansive view of what's possible. But this is not a high
00:37:28.160crime to have a difference of opinion on some of these things. This is something that should be,
00:37:32.740Congress should tackle, the courts over time should tackle constraint. This isn't up to one
00:37:38.940member to say, I'm pissed off because I got endorsed against, and so I'm going to charge
00:37:44.060impeachment against the Secretary of Defense. And if you go through a charge by charge by charge,
00:37:49.160it just gets more pedantic and ridiculous. I mean, whoever wrote this, just because you add
00:37:54.560the word pursuant in there doesn't mean it's true. And it is constitutionally and statutorily
00:38:01.280illiterate. And I think whoever wrote this for Massey did him a great disservice. Just take on
00:38:07.720the Senator Kelly charge. Senator Kelly is a retired officer. He publicly was instructing
00:38:16.220current serving troops that in the context of arguments from the administration on how to
00:38:23.740protect federal agents who are trying to enforce the law and suggesting that if armed troops
00:38:31.200go to protect federal agents, that you can refuse those orders, which is just not true.
00:38:39.600There are multiple statutes that allow the president to use the military to protect federal
00:38:45.360agents and the conduct of enforcing the law. We didn't even invoke the Insurrection Act,
00:38:49.960but there were all sorts of laws. We wrote a whole paper, Ken Cuccinelli, myself and some others,
00:38:53.700for a whole paper on this years ago but again if you disagree that's fine let's settle this
00:39:01.900through the courts that's not a high crime so every aspect of this entire litany of charges
00:39:07.540is utter nonsense i could go on and on and on about transnational you know first off i i thought i
00:39:14.120thought they didn't go far even far enough with kelly and the rest of those uh culprits but this
00:39:20.140demeans it. Look, there's not that there's some policy differences here, but they're going to
00:39:25.080come back and impeach and they're going to try to force a war powers vote. As soon as they take
00:39:28.940power, folks, the age of reason is over. It's going to be a reign of terror on Capitol Hill.
00:39:35.540You watch, right? What do they have as the headline of the, you know, don't take it from
00:39:40.220me. They got the headline today or yesterday in the Financial Times of London. Democrats pledge
00:39:45.500to impeach trump's aides they have a whole strategy how they're going to go through and
00:39:51.240impeach the aides you know bobby kennedy other members of the of the cabinet under secretaries
00:39:57.160assistant secretaries they're going to try to go after investigations and go after stephen miller
00:40:02.180and stephen miller's entire team but wade what they've done is um they've demeaned this concept
00:40:09.280of impeachment impeachment should stand for something of a high crime and misdemeanor we've
00:40:14.060only impeached in the history of this nation, a secretary of war once. And that was for influence
00:40:20.360peddling and selling and taking a bribes around Fort Sill back, I think in the 1870s. So this is
00:40:27.440not something that happens often. That's why my point, these crazy people are demeaning it. And0.89
00:40:32.420that's why I want those, I wanted those charges because we hear the charges going at most, maybe
00:40:37.680it's policy differences at most, or at best it's policy differences. Some of the things are not
00:40:43.040even they don't even make sense it's it's it's written and drafted so poorly wade miller yeah
00:40:49.400and like you know hitting uh the wrong target uh you know we have never been involved in a war
00:40:56.380where at least one wrong target wasn't hit now those are always opportunities for improving of
00:41:01.760course we should strive to have a zero percent error rate but you cannot fight war even with
00:41:07.060the advanced technology we have without accidents happening and trying to turn and by the way the
00:41:12.040pentagon hasn't even admitted to this so whether they did or didn't uh it's not an impeachable
00:41:17.660offense accidentally hit the wrong target that's just not the way impeachment is supposed to work
00:41:23.120it is uh every charge is very bizarre it goes against the entire notion of what the impeachment
00:41:28.980process is for and again we could spend an entire hour going charge by charge by charge pulling up
00:41:35.040case history examining why all of those claims that you were just read are total nonsense
00:41:40.960but that's the takeaway it is just total nonsense
00:41:45.140wait hang on for a second i want to bring david zier who covers the pentagon for us and pete knows
00:41:52.100pete very well was there this morning and uh neil mccabe on here david zier you were there for uh
00:41:59.320for pete's defense of himself this morning uh it looks like this vote did not get canceled they
00:42:05.380must think they had the vote i know that pete the pentagon and uh the white house have been
00:42:10.140whipping this vote this afternoon. My understanding is that most of the original seven Republicans
00:42:15.800have kind of faded here. I guess we're going to know momentarily. They must feel they've got
00:42:19.120the votes to go forward, but it's going to be quite interesting because if they get shot down
00:42:24.140this procedural, it doesn't go forward. It's dead. David Zier, what do you got?
00:42:30.780Well, I felt like I was listening to a reading at the Politburo. You know, a lot of these things,
00:42:36.440The Yemen conflict, you remember a missile came within a half a mile of the Harry S. Truman. We're not allowed to go after Iranian-backed Houthi proxies. It's just completely insane. And this maritime law with the boat strikes in Venezuela, we didn't sign on to the Convention of the Seas, and a lot of this is open to interpretation.
00:42:57.200And the 19 countries of the 26 that joined us in the cartel coalition, counter cartel coalition, wouldn't agree with any of this language.
00:43:05.840But also, you know, going after Maduro, you've got to remember, this was case law going back to Noriega.
00:43:11.580I think the law was actually drafted by Bob Barr way back, you know, or Bill Barr, I mean.
00:43:18.320And, you know, so there's case law and precedent.
00:43:21.140And a lot of these indictments in Venezuela and Central America, South America, started under Obama as well.
00:43:28.460So I don't think a lot of this has teeth, but I don't know if this matters in this environment.
00:43:34.000And again, like you said, eventually the Democrats are going to steamroll over everybody.
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00:44:15.440And the retired people that I've interviewed in my thousands of interviews around the country over the years with Real American Voices at the Trump rallies and other, most of the veterans that I've spoke to on the road, even in airports, not just on the camera, love Pete Hegseth and love what he's doing.
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00:44:36.080They're sour about the redirection of forces in Ukraine and Europe.
00:44:39.440They're sour about the 20% cuts to the offices and the bureaucracy because Hegseth wants to focus on the staff sergeant and the captain level and doesn't want a bloated bureaucracy.
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00:51:28.300And I take it they must feel they have the votes or they wouldn't have gone for it.
00:51:33.780I know there was a big whip operation this afternoon to take the seven dissident Republicans and peel them away from Massey.
00:51:42.280I assume that that didn't work, although my understanding is that most of the seven had said, no, we don't really want to impeach Pete Hexeth.
00:51:53.180Yeah, in fact, Warren Davidson, who of the seven is the only Republican, you know, of the seven Republicans who voted for that War Powers Act on September 15th, Warren Davidson from Ohio is the only one of those seven who is returning in January.
00:52:11.100and he said this morning he will not support impeachment.
00:52:16.220And I think for him to stand up like he did,
00:52:18.600he's a veteran of Kosovo, he's a West Point grad,
00:52:21.920he's somebody who's been very vocal about the Iran war
00:54:03.100and uh and and and schumer came out said no i'm gonna do this but the republicans went in behind
00:54:09.360closed doors and had a kumbaya moment at least they came out and i think thune sounds like he
00:54:16.400was unanimously uh selected and jim jordan how do you go back to the retreads when it's been such a
00:54:23.520and particularly jordan who is very close to kevin mccarthy and jeff miller who are the
00:54:28.720manifestations of the swamp. And they, you know, they haven't met a lobbyist or a corporate PAC
00:54:33.800they didn't love. And the Democrats just drub people without using corporate PACs. And that's
00:54:39.460one of the big things they're putting forward is get corporate money out of politics. Of course,
00:54:43.920they've got all kind of dark money in the background. They're not saints by any stretch
00:54:48.500of the imagination. But they had a huge win, Neil McCabe, and are talking about change.
00:54:52.940we've had a catastrophic defeat by people and particularly i think that the the most upsetting
00:54:59.880to the audience and to the to the you know populist nationalist right and the conservative right
00:55:06.020is john thune who did nothing and blocked everything and people feel that these horrible
00:55:12.980hits in the senate came because of his lack of any engagement or any effort to do the most basic
00:55:20.160People are talking now, but they don't understand this 19 million additional votes, where did it come from, where they registered as a foreigner's and people's heads are blowing up.
00:55:29.660People have not gotten to the bottom of the data yet, but Thune blocked the Save America Act.
00:55:35.720And so people are saying, how did you guys get smoked and come back to Washington and the choice is Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan?
00:55:43.200And you pick Jim Jordan, who's completely in bed with the tech oligarchs, particularly with Meta and Zuckerberg and these companies that overwhelmingly led to the defeat of Republicans because you were too close on data centers.
00:56:00.440How did Democrats have a big victory and say we're going to change leadership?
00:56:04.840The Republicans get crushed and they say they're going to stick with leadership.
00:56:08.380And here we are on the first or second day back, we're getting Pete Hex impeached and we're going to go through the evening, at least part of the evening, this kind of thing hanging in the balance, sir.
00:56:20.460Well, Schumer is in trouble because early in the Trump administration, I believe it was March of 25, he cut a budget deal with President Trump and they basically said that's it.
00:56:31.700And if you look at his financials, Schumer has raised virtually no money for his re-election bid.
00:56:38.660And AOC was campaigning in upstate New York.
00:56:41.360There's still some question whether Schumer will actually even run for re-election.
00:56:46.500So and then, of course, you know, you add into Chris Van Hollen from Maryland.
00:56:51.080There's blood in the water for Schumer.
00:56:53.240And that was happening before the big term.
00:56:54.860It may be an open question about what he's going to run.
00:56:57.620But he came out as soon as Bernie Sanders and Slocken came out and says,
00:57:00.660hey, I am going to be the majority leader, and we're going to take a vote on that,0.81
00:57:04.680and I've got the votes and screw you guys.
00:57:06.280So, I mean, he's throwing down hard to fight this.
00:57:08.860My point is they're making changes after they had a huge win.
00:57:13.260We had a catastrophic defeat driven by the lack of work and effort in the House
00:57:19.200and the lack of work in the Senate when we ran the deal.
00:57:22.680Where are the investigations? Where are the perp walks?
00:57:26.180You know, where's all of it? Where's the Save America Act?
00:57:29.200Everything was performative, and yet we keep the exact same people.
00:57:32.420When President Trump's back is against the wall in this administration,
00:57:36.520from Stephen Miller to Pete Hexeth and Bobby Kennedy and all of them,
00:57:41.620we're going through an exercise tonight that may not work or tomorrow that may not work.
00:57:46.860There won't be a trial in the Senate, or if it is, do nothing or something.
00:57:50.160But we're 45 days or 50 days away from game on.
00:57:56.140When they're in charge, they are absolutely and totally and completely vicious.
00:58:01.080They're going to come to destroy people as they always do.
00:58:03.700And this time, they're not going to let people slip off the hook.
00:58:05.780They go, hey, we had these guys from 21 to 24, and we let them off the hook.
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