The House on Thursday, they passed this legislation to stop
the preferential treatment that the United States will give with Russia.
Of course, this is over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
It was an overwhelming vote.
It was 424 to eight.
And Chuck Schumer in the Senate said he's gonna try and make sure he hurries it
on through the Senate to make sure this gets somewhere far.
Now, remember I said 424 to eight.
There was eight,
those eight folks who voted against this they were all Republicans.
Let's go to those.
Lauren Boebert, unsurprising, Thomas Massey, Matt Getz, Andy Biggs,
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dan Bishop, Chip Roy, and Glenn Grothman.
And a few of those you will hear from soon.
But of course,
there was immediate response talking about why they did this from a few of them.
So I'm all for explanations.
Let's start with Marjorie Taylor Greene, cuz she released this I believe the day
before when they were talking about what they were going to do.
This is what she really feels her constituents really care about other
than this.
>> When my constituents from Georgia call into my office here in Washington,
DC, there is only one thing on their minds.
Hardworking Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
Don't care about foreign wars or foreign borders,
they care about gas prices back home.
They care about runaway inflation, and the fact that a used car or
truck costs 40% more today than it did last year.
I will not vote to spend hard earned American tax dollars in
foreign nations when people are hurting back home.
When my constituents are telling me that they want reassurance on gas prices,
inflation in our own Southern border.
The plain truth is that Ukraine cannot join NATO, and
we can only defend NATO nations.
We win when America is strong and so does the rest of the world.
We win when we put America first and globalism last.
>> Last, that was her address of the American nation.
She's doing on her Facebook live because, I guess,
she's trying to be like a president.
So she, of course,
is talking about all this and no one can forget what her fellow Representative,
Madison Cawthorn said about Zelinsky as she's talking about what we can't do and
what her constituents don't care about when it comes to this invasion.
Let's watch if you don't remember what Cawthorn said.
>> And stinger missiles over to them so they can defend themselves better.
But remember that Zelinsky is a thug, remember the Ukrainian government is
incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.
And it really there's a new world.
>> Another name on the list was Thomas Massey and
he did tweet a little bit of his explanation as to why he was doing this,
but it's a little bit aggressive and angry.
Let's go to this.
He said, this was slipped into the Russian sanctions Bill on pages 19, 20, and 21.
It gives the president broad authority to sanction virtually anyone anywhere
in the world whether they're connected to Russia or not, and
eventualIst at the State Department are doing the happy dance now.
So there's multiple pages he put as far as the tweet from three pages.
The first one, I wanna show you guys specifically about how his explanation as
to why President Biden can now sanction anyone anywhere for anything in the world.
As you saw him explain, let's look at that.
Closer, a view of what he figured no one's gonna read.
Starting on line nine there.
In general, the President may impose the sanctions described in subsection B with
with respect to any foreign person that the President determines based on credible
information.
One, is responsible for or complicit in or is this [LAUGH] directly or
indirectly engaged in serious human rights abuse.
Is a current or former government official or a person acting for or
on behalf of such an official who's responsible for or complicit in or
has directly or indirectly engaged in corruption.
Misappropriation of state assets, expropriation of private assets for
personal gain.
It goes on and on about corruption and human rights violations.
Things that then it said at the beginning once it's credible and
it's been confirmed, he can do those things but it doesn't matter about facts.
Last thing.
So Representative Grothman who I point out is another one of these eight Republicans.
He took that connection as far as, but he could do anything he wants.
And he took it to mean also with antichoice and
also with LGBTQ community, watch this.
>> Say that's with regard to two areas, LGBTQ agenda and abortion.
Already, when you talk to people from Eastern Europe, the Caribbean,
the Dominican Republican particular, Central and South America,
people are mad because the United States throws around its substantial
economic weight to fight the Christian beliefs of these countries.
The president will have a new tool in his toolbox if he wants
to force other countries to adapt the views of abortion,
and the views of LGBTQ that are the views quite
frankly of the left wing of the Democrat party.
The president will be able to threaten the parliaments or for
all I know lobbyists demonstrators in foreign countries by saying,
you can't get a visa to the United States because we don't like your stand
on abortion, we don't like your stance on LGBT.
>> It's pretty definitive statement he had there.
Most likely, I don't know [LAUGH] maybe, I think.
>> Yeah, so it's hard not to dislike Republicans.
So Grothman's arguments were completely made up.
There has never been a single case of that,
nobody's ever said that it's gonna be used for that.
He just wants to bring everything back to the cultural wars.
Ukraine, Russia, who cares?
My voters hate gay people, they don't want you to have an abortion.
They wanna be able to control women's bodies.
So I'm gonna bring that back to this.
Is it related?
I don't care that it's not related.
I'm just gonna bring it back anyway, cuz all I know is cultural wars.
And by the way,
don't ever talk about the economy because we sucked on the economy and we don't want
anybody finding out that the Republican Party is entirely for the rich, right?
Then you get to the immoral portion of the party like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
So she comes out there and she's like, who cares about Ukraine?
My voters only care about gas prices and they're incredibly selfish.
And if Putin is murdering all the Ukrainians, we don't care at all.
Now, I don't believe her.
And the polling indicates that it's not true even in her district,
but she's basically projecting her evil onto her voters and
saying, I don't care, it doesn't affect me at all.
And they're all talking about, whoa, whoa, what are you guys talking about?
Why is Ukraine more quote unquote woke than Russia?
Well, what's your evidence for any of that?
It doesn't matter, they're just trying to redirect your hatred towards Ukraine for
no reason.
And Christian beliefs that Grothman was talking about Russia's Christian and so
is Ukraine.
What are you talking about?
It doesn't make any sense.
They don't even try to make sense.
And then that leads us to Cawthorn.
He called Zelensky a thug and he said that he was incredibly evil.
Why are you attacking Zelensky when his country was clearly invaded?
You guys you don't have eyes.
It doesn't make any sense.
Look guys, we're progressives on this panel.
We're against military intervention overall and specifically here,
cuz it would be against the nuclear power.
We do not want military intervention.
That doesn't mean you should do nothing and go, who cares,
let him murder the Ukrainians.
No, you could have balance.
I know for Republicans that's super hard because you'd have to use your mind and
you'd have to use judgment and go, maybe we could do economic sanctions against
oligarchs but not start World War Three.
I don't know, I need everything to be black and white, who do I hate?
I know it's confusing for you guys, we'll talk slow.
And then finally, the most important part is that the Russians then take things
like call what Cawthorn says, what Tucker Carlson says on a nightly basis and
they replayed on Russian TV as propaganda.
And a lot of people I think make the mistake of thinking so what,
it's obvious propaganda.
No, it's propaganda cuz it isn't obvious to the local population.
They painted us, look, even the Americans agree with us.
Their leaders are corrupt and evil, and
on the side of the evil Ukrainians who must be murdered.
But brave Americans know the real truth and then they'll play to Fox news and
it will seem legitimate.
Those play tapes from Congressman and Congresswoman.
It'll seem legitimate.
In fact, here's the foreign minister for Russia making our case for us,
here watching.
>> We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western
media.
If you take the United States,
only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point of view.
So it's a war and it's a war which involves
the methods of information terrorism.
There is no doubt about this.
>> So there's a war criminal saying, Atta Boy Fox News way to make our case for us.
So it's not us saying, it's the Russian foreign minister saying.
All right, Amy your thoughts.
>> Well, the irony of their position right now does not escape me.
Where was the outrage and telling us to leave Afghanistan?
Where was the outrage then?
And they were all saying we should stay, we should stay.
And for me as a military spouse, I mean, I was on the phone with my husband as he was
actually there taking people out of the country.
He was there during that time period, and
hearing how they're actually saying that we should not be leaving.
But now, it's the opposite, we're okay with war here.
And then if we're gonna go there and we're gonna talk about spending our money and
helping countries, let's talk about this helping Saudi,
let's talk about what's happening there and the human [LAUGH] people, right?
We are choosing the things to care about whenever it just seems whatever
the opposite the party is doing the Democrats, and
it's not really an argument in good faith.
>> Yeah, by the way, Amy, that's such a great point.
Cuz if we wanna do it in good faith, look, I don't like Republicans,
the Republican leaders, I don't like them.
I think they're bad people.
But if they wanna vote with us on principle against the war in Yemen by
cutting off funding to Saudi Arabia, I'm in, let's go vote together.
We're reasonable, were practical as Progressives, right?
We just want the right results.
But if you come then and go, no, I don't care about the people of Yemen,
just let them die and let's keep giving money to Saudi Arabia.
But let's not give money to the Ukrainians,
let's give weapons to the Saudis who are Muslim fundamentalists,
who by the way, the other day in one day executed 81 people.
They usually do it with a sword, it's not very different than ISIS and
Republicans say they're great, let's give them money and weapons.
But the Ukrainians who are, by the way, I mean, if you care about this stuff and
I know republicans say they care about it.
Ukrainians are Christians and they're being slaughtered and
these Republicans turn around and I don't care, don't give them money or weapons,
don't give them any help at all.
Does that sound moral to you?
>> There's no money to be made there, that's where the bottom lie.
I mean, look, we give all that to Saudi and then President Trump said when he was
president, he's like, do you know how much money we make off of him?
He said it straight up, this is two and two is four.
They're not hiding it at all.