in opposing dc statehood these
representatives and their dark money
backers over the heritage foundation
that's right
are telling over 700 000 americans to
sit down
shut up and enjoy this authoritarian
system implemented by a bunch of elites
who thought it was okay
to enslave people for their selfless
monetary gain
hundreds of years ago as the fight over
statehood for the district of columbia
heats up on capitol hill
proponents of the idea like progressive
michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib are
taking the opportunity to voice what
sounds like trashing the united states
a sentiment on the left that has the
wall street journal's gerard baker
asking
how can a nation prevail in an
ideological struggle when its leaders
believe
its values are evil let's bring in
republican congressman from ohio jim
jordan get his reaction on what we just
heard
welcome back congressman good to be with
you
so this is a big fight obviously d.c
statehood would mean a lot of things
but the thing that most of the members
of both parties are worried about
or happy about if you're a democrat is
that it would probably mean two
democratic senators for good
added to the senate and yet your
colleague there from the other side of
the aisle says basically it's about
oppressing people
uh and if you're against d.c statehood
what does that stay
about you well not probably shannon it
would definitely mean to d.c
uh senators uh for the democrats
and that's why they want to do it you
know look uh our colleague calls us
names but we actually want to follow the
constitution you shouldn't be called
names because of the constitution the
constitution is clear
you can't do this you have to have a
federal district as under the
constitution
if you want to change that then amend
the constitution i mean
that's pretty simple this is about this
is unconstitutional the american people
don't support it and this is driven by
pure partisan politics because they know
they know for sure that if they get dc
statehood
that's two more democrat senators in the
united states senate
and uh that's that's their objective
here it's all about political power i
mean remember these are the same people
who are pushing everything through the
house right now on a total partisan
basis
over the last four weeks they have
radically changed election law radically
changed police law radically changed gun
law and last week while there's a crisis
on the border
they radically changed immigration law
and gave amnesty to 3 million illegal so
it's about politics raw political
power and it should be about the
constitution
the president talked about unity and
bipartisanship in fact some on the left
criticized him saying we don't want to
hear about bipartisanship if you win we
want democrats to get everything they
want
here's what he said i believe this is
today about working together
we work together we can do big things
important things necessary things
we saw it 11 years ago with the
affordable care act
we saw it 11 days ago when we marked the
signing of the american rescue plan
but we're not done yet and congressman i
actually found that to be a confusing
statement because of both of those
major massive pieces of legislation
passed without a single republican
vote is that how he plans to get him
yeah
and one of them had two democrats in the
house vote with us against the 1.9
trillion dollar so-called covet package
even though 91 percent of it wasn't for
coven
so yeah i don't know how that's working
together if if the bite administration
wants to work together to
reinstitute the the measures the trump
administration had to secure our border
well i'm all for that if they want to
work with us and make sure we don't
raise taxes
i'm all for that and frankly if they
want to work with us and start to get a
handle on this ridiculous out of control
spending
i'm all for that as well but i don't
think that's what the left wants to do
joe biden campaigned as mr you know mr
moderate the guy who was low-key and
everything but now we see what he's
really like because he's been in power
all the things they have passed in a
partisan fashion that are radical left
pieces of
of of legislation um look it'd be good
for the country frankly if we could work
together but i just don't see how you
can do that with
with this crowd who wants to make the
radical changes they're making and who
want to cancel any republican
who speaks out against them it's tough
to work with with folks like that