00:00:00.000Representative Thomas Massey, who is on his way out, remember that he was defeated in a primary in Kentucky because he decided to run on the issue of Israel in a district that has 500 total Jews.
00:00:10.000Representative Massey, on his way out, he needs some strange new respect.
00:00:15.000And so, in order to grab a few headlines as the door hits him in the ass, he has now introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense.0.98
00:00:26.000Here is Representative Thomas Massey making sure to grandstand one last time.0.95
00:00:32.000The form of the resolution is as follows.
00:00:36.000Impeaching Peter Bryan Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:00:42.000Resolved that Peter Bryan Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, also referred to as Secretary of War by the administration, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate.
00:01:01.000Okay, now this is actually a reintroduction of articles he filed back in September before the recess.
00:01:05.000But now, because the Republicans did so poorly in the election, he feels like this is a great way of attacking the administration.
00:01:11.000Now, it's kind of fascinating here, he doesn't go right at Trump because he understands that if he tried to impeach Trump, then the Republican Party would stand up and say no.
00:01:19.000So, what he's trying to do is draw away a few sort of rogue Republicans to his side to build on his nascent anti-Republican movement.
00:01:27.000Again, I said this before the election: there is a wing of the Republican Party that wanted to watch things crash and burn so they could pick up the pieces.
00:01:34.000Many of them openly campaigned for this.
00:02:35.000I know there are a lot of people who are saying, what about the congressional declaration of war?
00:02:41.000The last time Congress officially declared war, like really not an authorization to use military force, like a full scale declaration of war, was World War II.
00:03:30.000I know that everyone forgot about this.
00:03:31.000Hostilities have not been in a state of active military conflict since approximately June, April.
00:03:40.000If you go all the way back, there have been a couple of sporadic strikes, but like full scale warfare basically ended with the ceasefire in April.
00:03:46.000And then the MOU collapsed in June, and then it just turned back into blockade.
00:03:51.000A blockade is not an authorization of war, it doesn't require a congressional authorization of war.
00:03:57.000Article 3 is the 60 day war powers clock.
00:04:01.000So, President Trump sent Congress a war powers notification March 2nd.
00:04:04.000It expired May 1st, and there was no extension of it.
00:04:06.000But, number one, the War Powers Act violates the president's executive authority.
00:04:10.000It has never really gone all the way up to the Supreme Court level, but that's what would happen.
00:04:15.000The idea that the Congress can claw back the president's executive authority under the Constitution is wrong.
00:04:20.000And again, ongoing military operations does not mean war.
00:04:25.000There are ongoing military operations for the United States all around the globe.
00:04:28.000That doesn't mean they're in violations of the War Powers Act.
00:04:32.000We'll get to more on this in just a second.
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00:05:40.000Article 4 is an accusation that Pete Hegseth basically is responsible for the hit on the Manab Elementary School in Iran, in which 156 were killed, mostly children.
00:05:53.000And Thomas Massey is trying to claim it wasn't an accident, that this was basically because Pete Hegseth fired his judge advocate generals, like the lawyers in the military, saying things like maximum lethality, not tepid legality.
00:06:05.000And restricting the Pentagon press score.
00:06:28.000Okay, Article 5, we're going through Massey's stuff here because, again, Democrats are probably going to try this again in January or February.
00:06:37.000Is an accusation that there were extrajudicial drug boat strikes, right?
00:06:41.000That some 243 people were killed in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in strikes on drug boats.
00:06:46.000Now, again, the government argues we're in armed conflict with foreign terrorist organizations.
00:06:51.000And Hegseth is going to argue correctly that he relied on military lawyers.
00:06:55.000Now, what Massey and others are claiming is there was one report that Hegseth basically said you should blow these people away when they're in the water already, double tap them, right?0.97
00:07:04.000That there's a drug boat, you hit the drug boat, there are a bunch of people in the water, and now you kill them.
00:07:07.000There's no evidence of a direct kill order from Hegseth of people who are.
00:07:11.000Or to combat, meaning that they were out of combat because they were floating in the water.
00:07:16.000Article six, retaliation against Mark Kelly.
00:07:18.000So you remember that Mark Kelly, the senator from Arizona, basically told the troops to refuse illegal orders.
00:07:24.000But it could be read as though he was telling them to just refuse orders altogether.
00:07:28.000And the Pentagon threatened to court martial him and order a review.
00:07:32.000Now again, it can certainly be construed that Kelly was telling people to defy orders.
00:07:37.000When it says illegal orders, it all depends on Mark Kelly's definition of illegal.
00:07:41.000Also, administrative proceedings are not corporal punishment.
00:07:43.000Okay, Article 7 in these impeachment articles seizing Maduro.
00:07:48.000The argument is that Operation Absolute Resolve on January 3rd, 2026, used special operators to strike Caracas and capture Maduro and his wife.
00:07:56.000And he says the Congress should be in charge, but this was an arrest operation.
00:07:59.000The president has substantial authority to conduct law enforcement operations at home and also abroad.
00:08:05.000And also, we should point out at this point that, again, if he doesn't like it, he should take it up with the president.
00:08:10.000The defense secretary is just performing his function.
00:08:39.000None of this is an actual statutory crime at all, like at all.
00:08:43.000Whatever the impeachment charges brought against President Trump last time around or the last two times around, this is somehow substantially weaker than either of those, and both of those were weak.
00:08:52.000Here was Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responding.
00:08:56.000Do you have enough Republican support to defeat impeachment articles this week?
00:10:45.000So, literally on November 6th, he tweeted out Republicans hit a wall because they kissed the wall.1.00
00:10:51.000Again, this is the kind of nonsense Massey traffics in.0.75
00:10:54.000His entire theory of politics is that everything he doesn't like has been manipulated by Israel and the Jews.0.89
00:11:00.000That was what he ran his campaign on in Kentucky, and then he lost.0.96
00:11:03.000And of course, you'll recall that he tried to launch his horseshoe party with Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene back in August.
00:11:10.000This is all part of the same effort, which is to undermine America's foreign policy and to undermine the president.
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