VOTING TO DECERTIFY, FLORIDA SENATOR RICK SCOTT AND MIAMI CONGRESSMAN MARIO DIAZ-BALART
AND CARLOS JIMENEZ.
ONLY CARLOS GIMENEZ ACCEPTED OUR
INVITATION TO JOIN US TODAY BUT
JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO
CANCELLED THIS MORNING CITING A
MEDICAL EMERGENCY.
>> WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT
CONGRESSMAN TED DOACH OF BOXA
RATON CAN JOIN US, THERE HE IS,
GOOD MORNING, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
>> DOOD TO SEE YOU, GOOD TO BE
WITH YOU, THANKS, MICHAEL.
>> AND CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING
RE-ELECTED CHAIR OF THE HOUSE
ETHICS COMMITTEE.
>> THANK YOU WERE THE WORDS THAT
DN ALD TRUMP GAVE AT THE ELLIPSE
ON WEDNESDAY THE FUSE THAT LIT
THE BOMB THAT WENT OFF AT THE
CAPITOL.
>> THIS WAS A FUSE THAT WAS LIT
YOU COULD DW BACK TO THE
BEGINNING OF THE ADMINISTRATION
BUT CERTAINLY YOU COULD GO BACK
IT THE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION
WHEN THE PRESIDENT SAID
ANNOUNCED THAT IF HE LOST THE
ONLY WAY HE WOULD LOSE WAS IF
THERE WAS FRAUD AND THEN HE LOST
AND LOST BY A LOT.
WAS PROWNSED IN THE LECH TRIAL
COLLEGE.
>> .
>> FRAS FORWARD TO WEDNESDAY
MORNING WHEN HE URGED THE PEOPLE
TO FIGHT BACK.
THIS IS INCITEMENT.
IT IS NOT, IT’S SAD BUT ST NOT
COMPLICATED.
IT’S SHOCKING BUT IT’S NOT
SURPRISING.
THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT LEAD
TO THIS.
AND THIS IS WHY WE’RE FOCUSED ON
HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD TO
ENSURE THE PRESIDENT DOES NO
FURTHER DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY,
NATIONAL SECURITY OR STANDING IN
THE WORLD.
>> CONGRESSMAN YOU ARE ONE OF
THE PEOPLE CALLING FOR THIS
SECOND IMPEACHMENT.
I PULLED A DRAFT OF THE
IMPEACHMENT ARTICLE THAT WAS
WRITTEN T WAS FOR HIGH-CRIMES
AND MISDEMEANORS.
I WANT TO READ FOR OUR VIEWERS A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT WHO IT SAYS
ALSO WILFFULLY MADE STATEMENTS
THAT ENCOURAGED AND FORE SEE
PLEE RESULTED IN IMMINENT
LAWLESS ACTION AT THE CAPITOL,
KIND OF WHAT YOU WERE JUST
TALKING ABOUT.
ARE YOU AN ATTORNEY, DE
CONSTRUCTING HIS SPEECH, DOES IT
RISE TO THAT KIND OF CRIMINAL
EVIDENCE THAT IMPEACHMENT WOULD
BE APPROPRIATE?
BBS WHAT IS APPROPRIATE HERE IS
THAT WE, GLENNA, IS THAT WE
SHOULDN’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
WHAT THIS PRESIDENT MAY CHOOSE
TO DO OVER THE NEXT WEEK AND A
HALF AFTER WHAT HAPPENED ON
WEDNESDAY I JOINED WITH A NUMBER
OF MY COLLEAGUES TO INVOKE THE
25th AMENDMENT, TO CALLING
FOR THE PRESIDENT TO RESIGN, AND
THERE IS IMPEACHMENT BUT THIS
ISN’T JUST A LEGAL MATTER OF
INTERPRETING WHAT IS IN THIS
DOCUMENT.
WE NOW HAVE HEARD FROM
REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE, IN THE
SENATE, THOSE CLOSEST TO THE
PRESIDENT WHO SERVE AT HIS SIDE
WHO HAVE RESIGNED SAYING THIS IS
TOO MUCH.
WE CANNOT TOLERATE THIS.
CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATORS AND
NEWSPAPERS WHO HAVE CALLED FOR
THE PRESIDENT TO LEAVE OFFICE,
WE HAVE TO USE EVERY TOOL THAT
WE HAVE TO HOLD THE PRESIDENT
ACCOUNTABLE AND TO ALLOW US TO
TURN THE PAGE SO THAT WE CAN
MOVE ON SAFELY AND DE FENT. SO
JUST LET IT GO.
WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT?
>> MICHAEL, HOW OFTEN HAVE WE
HEARD IN THIS ADMINISTRATION
ARGUMENTS ALONG THE LINES OF
WELL THIS IS JUST TRUMP BEING
TRUMP.
24 IS WHAT HE DOES. HE PUTS
PEOPLE IN CAGES WE SAY LET’S NOT
OVER DO IT.
HE USES TEAR GAS AND THE
MILITARY TO CLEAR OUT A PARK OF
PEACEFUL PROTESTORS AND WE SAY
WELL THIS IS JUST WHAT TRUMP
DOES AND THERE IS GOING TO BE AN
ELECTION.
AND NOW WE HAVE HAD AN ELECTION
AND WE HAVE SEEN WHAT CAN HAPPEN
WHEN THERE IS A VIOLENT ATTACK
ON THE SYMBOL OF
REPRESENTATIONAL DEMOCRACY IN
OUR COUNTRY AND WE SAY WELL IT
IS ONLY TEN MORE DAYS.
I DON’T SEE HOW IT IS THAT IT IS
ACCEPTABLE FOR US TO LOOK AT
WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY IN
THIS INSURRECTION, THIS
INSURRECTION ON OUR CAPITOL AND
SAY WELL, WHY DON’T WE JUST SIT
BACK, WE’LL SEE HOW THIS PLAYS
OUT.
WE’LL CROSS OUR FINGERS, WE WILL
HOPE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS
AGAIN.
WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN
TO MOVE FORWARD AND THE WAY TO
DO THAT IS TO PROTECT OUR
COUNTRY, OUR REPUTATION, THE
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY BY
LISTENING TO WHAT ALL THOSE
REPUBLICANS AND CON
TERVE-- CONSERVATIVES AND
DEMOCRATS SAID WHICH IS THAT THE
PRESIDENT NEEDS TO LEAVE OFFICE.
>> CONGRESSMAN, SHORTLY AFTER
THAT IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE
MORNING AND DESPITE WHAT WE HAD
BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND LOOKING
AT, 147 OF YOUR COLLEAGUES
NATIONALLY VOTED TO OVERTURN,
ESSENTIALLY, VOTES IN TWO
STATES, EITHER ONE OR BOTH,
ARIZONA, AND PENNSYLVANIA, A
DOZEN OF THEM ARE YOUR
COLLEAGUES, FLORIDA CONGRESSMEN
AND WOMEN, AND RICK SCOTT, THE
SENATOR FROM FOR DA.
AND I WONDER IF YOU HAD-- FROM
FLORIDA.
I WONDER IF YOU HAD ANY
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANY OF THOSE
COLLEAGUES AND WHAT DID YOU SAY
TO THEM AND WHAT WAS YOUR
RESPONSE ABOUT THAT?
>> I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
WITH MY COLLEAGUES, YET.
WE FINISHED AS YOU POINT OUT AT
AROUND 4:00 IN THE MORNING.
IMPORTANT THAT WE WERE NOT GOING
TO ALLOW THAT INSURRECTION
PREVENT US FROM DOING OUR JOB OF
DEFENDING OUR DEMOCRACY BUT WHEN
I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY I WILL
MAKE CLEAR AS I HAVE PUBLICLY
HOW SORELY DISAPPOINTING IT IS
THAT MY COLLEAGUES CHOSE, THAT
SENATOR SCOTT CHOSE TO TRY TO
REVERSE THE OUTCOME OF AN
ELECTION, THIS IS NOT A QUESTION
OF HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE
CANDIDATES THIS IS NOT ABOUT
WHETHER YOU THINK THINGS WENT
THE WAY YOU WANTED OR NOT.
THIS IS ABOUT DOING THE JOB THAT
WE HAVE AS ELECTED OFFICIALS
WHICH IS TO CERTIFY THE OUTCOME
OF AN ELECTION THAT WAS
CONTESTED, THAT WAS CHALLENGED
BY THE LOSING CANDIDATE IN
DOZENS AND DOZENS OF COURT ROOMS
AROUND THE COUNTRY.
THAT WAS, THAT SAW THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES ATTEMPT TO
CONVINCE, TO THREAT EB AN
ELECTED OFFICIAL, MULTIPLE
ELECTED OFFICIALS IT APPEARS NOW
IN GEORGIA, AGAIN TO STEP IN TO
REVERSE.
TO SIMPLY CERTIFY THAT AFTER ALL
OF THAT WE HAVE AN OUTCOME THAT
HAS BEEN CERTIFIED.
THEY CHOSE TO REVERSE THE
OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION T IS A
SAD, I BELIEVE, IT IS A SAD
DERELICTION OF DUTY TO STAKE THE
SIDE OF A PRESIDENT WHO IS
ESPOUSING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
RATHER THAN THAN WITH THE
CONSTITUTION, OUR DEMOCRACY, THE
JUDICIARY, AND ALL OF THOSE
JUDGES WHO REJECTED OUT OF HAND
ALL OF THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
ADVANCED BY THE LOSING CAN THE
DA, BY THE PRESIDENT.
AND I, THAT IS WHAT I WILL TELL
THEM WHEN WE HAVE THE
CONVERSATION.
THAT WE THEED TO BE ABLE TO MOVE
FORWARD BUT I WILL TELL THAT YOU
IT IS REALLY, REALLY CHALLENGING
WHEN PEOPLE FAIL TO STAND UP AND
DO THEIR JOB WHICH IS NOT TO
DEFEND THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
CRAZY THEORIES.
>> WE WERE GOING TO ASK
CONGRESSMAN GIMENEZ WHY HE VOTED
AS HE DID.
HE HAS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.
SO WE WILL DO IT ON ANOTHER
OCCASION.
LET ME YOU CAN THIS.
THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE WERE
WOEFULLY UNPREPARED FOR WHAT
HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY EVEN THEY
OTHER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,
POLICE INTELLIGENCE, THE ADL ANY
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WASHED THE
CAPITOL POLICE THREE, FOUR, FIVE
DAYS AHEAD OF TIME, YOU KNOW,
THE PROUD BOYS, Q-ANON, ALL
THESE VIOLENT PEOPLE WERE GOING
TO BE PART OF THIS CROWD.
WHAT HAPPENED?
WHY WERE THEY SO UNPREPARED?
>> WELL, MICHAEL, WE DON’T KNOW
YET.
AND WE’RE GOING TO GET TO THE
BOTTOM OF IT.
THE CAPITOL POLICE ALSO KNEW TO
BE PREPARED.
THAT IS WHY WE WERE ALL TOLD ON
TUESDAY THAT WE SHOULD ARRIVE
EARLY AT THE CAPITOL ON
WEDNESDAY.
THAT WE SHOULD PLAN TO STAY
WITHIN THE CAPITOL COMPLEX AND
NOT GO OUTSIDE THE ENTIRE DAY.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS-- I WILL
USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO
POINT OUT THAT WHILE WE FIGURE
OUT WHAT HAPPENED, THE CAPITOL
POLICE OFFICERS, AT LEAST ONE OF
WHOM HAS DIED AND ANOTHER, IT
APPEARS MAY HAVE, SO MANY OF
THEM, ALL OF THEM PUT THEIR
LIVES AT RISK TO DEFEND US.
AND WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT
HAPPENED THAT LEAD TO THIS.
BUT THE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES
THAT THEY ARE FACING NOW AND
THAT PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THIS IN
THE CAPITOL, STAFF MEMBERS IN
PARTICULAR, ARE IMMENSE.
AND AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN
THROUGH THE CRISIS OF TRAUMA
ASSOCIATED WITH A PRACTICESKED
SHOOTING,-- MASKED SHOOTING, I
HOPE WE LEARN FROM THIS NOT JUST
WHAT HAPPENED TO STOP THIS, THAT
LEAD TO THIS BREECH ON OUR
DEMOCRACY BUT I HOPE IT REMINDED
US THAT WE NEED TO DO MORE TO
ADDRESS THE MENTAL HEALTH ASPECT
OF THINGS LIKE THIS WHEN THEY
HAPPEN AND TO REDOUBLE OUR
EFFORTS TO PREVENT THE KINDS OF
THINGS LIKE THAT HORRIBLE
SHOOTING AT STONEMAN DOUGLAS IN
2018.
THIS SORT OF TRAUMA IS REAL.
AND I’M SORRY IF IT IS A LITTLE
OFF TOPK BUT I HAVE HEARD FROM
SO MANY OF THE FAMILIES FROM
PARKLAND AND FROM CORAL SPRINGS
AND FROM ALL THROUGHOUT SOUTH
FLORIDA WHO-- WHO ARE JUST
REMINDED OF THE TRAUMA THAT THEY
FELT.
IT IS A DIFFERENT SETTING, I
KNOW, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US
TO STAND UP AND ENSURE ADEQUATE
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES AND
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO STOP.
>> CONGRESSMAN IN THE SHORT TIME
LEFT I’M INTERESTED TO HEAR YOUR
THOUGHTS ON SOMETHING.
TWITTER CANCELED THE PRESIDENT’S
ACCOUNTS THIS WEEK.
AND THE REASON THEY USED WAS
BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT IT WAS--
HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT WAS A
RISK TO INCITING VIOLENCE.
SO FOR MANY PEOPLE THAT MOVE IS
RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT BIG
TECH, SO TO SPEAK, ORCHESTRATING
FREE SPEECH.
IS THAT A SLIP AREY SLOPE TO
YOU.
AND ALSO SORT OF INVOLVES A LOT
OF SPANISH LANGUAGE RADIO WHERE
DS INFORMATION IS
SPERK-- DISINFORMATION IS
PERCOLATING IN OUR NECK OF THE
WOODS.
I’M INTERESTED TO HEAR YOUR
TAKE.
>> FIRST OF ALL LET’S BE ON
HONEST, I WISH THAT SOME OF THE
OUTRAGE THAT WE HAVE SEEN AMONG
PEOPLE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT WAS
THROWN OFF OF SWITTER I WISH
THAT THEY SHARED AT LEAST A
FRACTION OF THAT FOR ATTACK THAT
TOOK PLACE ON OUR NATION’S
CAPITOL THAT WAS INCITED, NUMBER
ONE.
THERE ARE LOTS OF ISSUES WE WILL
BE GRAPPLING WITH IN THE NEW
CONGRESS IN THE WAY THAT THE
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES OPERATE BUT
TWITTER TOOK THIS ACTION AND
FACEBOOK ACTED SIMILARLY BECAUSE
THEY BELIEVE THAT THE
PRESIDENT’S TWEETS POSED A
THREAT.
IMAGINE IF THEY HAD ACTUALLY
TAKEN THAT ACTION SOONER.
IMAGINE IF THE PRESIDENT AS SO
MANY SAID AT THE BEGINNING HAD
STOPPED TWEETING AND FOCUSED ON
TRYING TO BRING THE COUNTRY
TOGETHER INSTEAD OF USING
TWITTER TO VICIOUSLY ATTACK
THOSE WHO DON’T BELIEVE AND
SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES.
YEAH, THERE ARE LOTS OF
CONVERSATIONS WE’RE GOING TO
HAVE.
BUT LET’S REMEMBER THE OUTRAGE
AND SHOCK AND ANGER REALLY OUGHT
TO BE FOCUSED ON WHAT HAPPENED
ON WEDNESDAY WHEN OUR NATION’S
CAPITOL CAME UNDER ATTACK BY
AMERICANS.
>> THAT INDEED SHOULD BE
EVERYBODY’S FOCUS.
CONGRESSMAN TED DEUTSCH.
ALWAYS GOOD TO SPEAK WITH YOU.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, GLAD YOU
SURVIVED THE ATTACK.
>> THANKS VERY MUCH, IT IS GOOD
TO BE WITH YOU AS ALWAYS, I HOPE