Watch Live: Defense Secretary Hegseth gives Pentagon briefing amid impeachment attempt over Iran war
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[0:56] [clears throat]
[0:57] >> Good morning everyone. This is your two
[0:58] minute warning and we're going to get
[1:48] >> [clears throat]
[1:52] >> Well uh good morning.
[1:54] I'll get right to it.
[1:56] What one disgruntled and defeated
[1:58] congressman is
[2:00] is not oversight
[2:02] and it's not accountability. It's a
[2:04] political spectacle,
[2:06] a personal manifesto driven by ego and
[2:09] resentment. Time for one man's final
[2:12] days in Congress to try to do damage to
[2:14] this president,
[2:16] this country, and most irresponsibly
[2:19] the warriors who defend it.
[2:21] It's a farce
[2:23] and it's a stunt
[2:25] and everybody knows it.
[2:28] In the 250 years of our American
[2:31] Republic, no Secretary of War
[2:33] or Secretary of Defense has ever been
[2:35] impeached for carrying out lawful
[2:39] military operations.
[2:41] And in our case,
[2:43] successful ones at that.
[2:46] Not once. War Powers Resolution or not,
[2:49] not under Reagan in Lebanon, not under
[2:51] Clinton in Kosovo, not under Obama in
[2:54] Iraq and Syria, not under Biden in Iraq
[2:58] and Syria.
[2:59] That's the standard. The history is
[3:01] clear and it's very straightforward.
[3:04] And one disgruntled congressman wants to
[3:06] shred it
[3:07] over
[3:09] policy disagreements.
[3:11] That's what it is, policy disagreements.
[3:13] Not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not
[3:16] treason, not bribery, not the kinds of
[3:18] offenses the founders intended when they
[3:21] wrote the impeachment clause.
[3:23] The proper remedy for a policy
[3:25] disagreement, it's legislation.
[3:27] It's debate.
[3:29] It's the next presidential election.
[3:31] It's not handing the House and Senate
[3:33] floor to the Democrats so that they can
[3:35] run a show show trial against the
[3:38] president and the Secretary of W