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Two days. Two days. That's how long it took for Donald Trump's administration to start cracking. His civil rights chief is gone, his secretary of state is reportedly weighing an exit, his defense secretary could be gone by the end of the week, based on what one congressman tells me today. And his own staff? They're lawyering up. They're listening to Congressman Robert Garcia, who told them, "Get ready, lawyer up." And I spoke with another congressman, Jamie Raskin, today, who outlines his priorities: Epstein investigations, Trump corruption investigations.

Uh, it feels great. I mean, it does seem a while off now, because at least I'm trying to make it seem like it's a while off, because we've got so much work to do over the next couple of months to get ready. You know, what's funny is the media, you know, everywhere I go, "What are your top three priorities? What are you going to do in the first week?" and so on. And we've just spent the last year out on the road campaigning, right? We're still just extricating from campaign mode. We are jubilant, of course, in celebrating this magnificent breakthrough for American democracy and devastating, uh, reputation and repudiation of all the corruption and lawlessness.

I want to talk about plans for day one a bit. I want to start with Elon Musk. Uh, should Elon Musk expect to be investigated by your committee?

Well, I don't want to get into, uh, which committee would do that, because so many committees claim a very serious interest in different aspects of the Elon Musk story. But, uh, on Doge, uh, it is just inconceivable to me that he will not be called forth to talk about Doge, this savage assault on the federal workforce and on federal values and priorities, things that have been legislated by Congress that, uh, the federal government is supposed to be implementing, which were torn down.

Mm-hmm.

Through the raid on, uh, the department databases.

What about on Epstein? Your committee, right before the election, released a pretty significant report outlining.

Yes.

Um, the president's, uh, assistance or facilitation of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse over the years, including significant allegations against the president himself.

Yes.

Do you anticipate having.

Yes.

Public hearings on this report and the allegations within?

That is certainly within the realm of possibility. I mean, I'm glad you read the report, because I think that, uh, our staff and, uh, our members, we did an astonishingly good job at summarizing everything we know about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and everything we know about Trump's own direct involvement in it. And the purpose of this report was to interrogate and then debunk the lie that there was no evidence anywhere in these millions and millions of documents that would support even an investigation into whether there were co-conspirators, whether there were accomplices, whether there were other crimes committed.

I mean.

And we're seeing it cover up in real time.

You mentioned the Justice Department and your oversight of the Justice Department today. Harmee Dhillon resigned. There have been rumblings over the past couple of weeks that Trump officials would rather resign than potentially face congressional, um, oversight. Does her resignation mean that she is free from, uh, potential oversight?

No. We have the authority to subpoena any American citizen. All of us owe the sovereign, whether in the form of a court or in the form of Congress, our honest and truthful testimony if we're subpoenaed to come and testify. And the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld Congress's oversight powers because we need to get information about what's actually going on in government and what's going on in society and the economy in order to pass the laws that we need.

So should we expect, um, oversight of Todd Blanchard and other DOJ current and former officials through the form of subpoenas?

Well, certainly, we not only can you expect the citizenry should demand close oversight of them. Now, Todd Blanchard has to come before the Department of I'm sorry. Todd Blanchard, as the attorney general and the head of the Department of Justice, has to come before the Judiciary Committee anyway. That is routine that he would make an annual, uh, visit. But if we need him to come back for other purposes, we will absolutely call him in.

What about the Trump family? We talked we started with the Trump family corruption. Is anyone with the last name Trump, uh, potentially excused from oversight? The kids, um.

No.

Any other family members? No?

No. No, no one is. Um, you know, and we have Trump family members like Donald Trump Jr. who are clearly trading on the Trump family name in order to make a lot of money. Um.

Wow.

You know, his, uh, his private investment firm posted the, um, staggering return of more than 1,000% because of his apparently clairvoyant ability to see into the future and to guess which private companies are going to get government contracts. And he's so unerring in this, um, interesting form of precognition that he was able to earn 1,000% for his investors.

Mm-hmm.

That's cause for celebration there. He got it more than 1,000%. I mean, the whole thing is a money-making operation. It is a rip-off. It's a con game. And Donald Trump has pardoned dozens of white-collar fraudsters for engaging in insider trading, embezzlement, um, stock swindles, ripping off investors, workers, consumers, you name it. That's the world that they travel in. He's cheated the victims of all those crimes out of more than $1.7 billion they were owed in restitution from their criminals, because Donald Trump relieved the criminals that we're talking about convicted felons here of their duty to pay, of their legal responsibility to pay, uh, their victims.

Mm.

Corrupt government is government that serves a tiny, tiny percentage of the people who've seized the power of government and taken political control. And democracy and the rule of law are there to serve everybody. And so you're talking about two completely different forms of government. When Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake," okay, was that a problem of accountability or is that a problem of affordability? And you see the false dichotomy there.

Right.

For his sons, for Jared Kushner, for their businesses. That that's the reality we're living through right now.

Congressman, thank you so much for your time.

Thanks for having me, Aaron.

We could put pressure on Trump to stop it, but I think we also have to be honest about, you know, the executive power and how Trump has used and abused it and how the Supreme Court has allowed him to do that. Um, you know, we cannot simply force him to stop the war. We can take votes. We can vote to cut off funding. He can veto that.

Mm.

Um, you know, I guess we could vote to not fund the Defense Department at all. But who wants, you know, a 21-year-old private, you know, to not be getting paid? Um, you know, it's extraordinarily difficult given how Trump has approached it. I think the other thing that we really need to do is put pressure on Republicans to join us.

Mm-hmm.

Um, get veto if we can get a veto-proof majority to cut off funding. Um, you know, look, Republicans shouldn't have supported this war in the first place. The reason they supported it is because of the Trump cult. You know, Trump says, "Jump." They say, "How high?" And that's, by the way, been an underreported aspect of this epic disaster for the Republican Party. The real problem is it was a cult.

Mm.

And, you know, I'm sorry I'm at a loss for a specific example, but whatever crazy thing Trump said, they said, "Yes, sir." And then he could say the exact opposite thing an hour later, and they would agree with that. They turned their entire party, their entire ideology, all of their party policy over to a guy who's got the attention span of a gnat who would move from one thing to the next. I mean, Trump promised not to get us into this war in the first place.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I think we need now that the Republicans have been completely wiped out by Trump, we have to really work hard to get a veto-proof majority to cut off the money for this war.

Have you heard at all from colleagues on the Republican side in the past 48 hours that they'd be willing to at least come out publicly more against Donald Trump in the next two years? Or not yet?

I have I have not.

Okay.

Um, unfortunately, yes.

I do got to ask you, uh, next week, potentially, you guys are coming back into a session, and there will be a vote to possibly impeach Pete Hegseth as soon as next week.

Yes.

Is that something you support?

Yes.

Do you expect that vote to pass?

I do.

Okay.

I think there'll be enough Republicans who want him gone.

Do you think and I'm asking you to predict the future a bit. Do you feel as though he will be secretary of defense when Democrats take over in January?

I do not.

Okay.

I think it's possible he might not be secretary of defense through the weekend.

Really?

Um, not likely, but possible.

What makes you say that?

Well, there's been all kinds of stories that the Republic that, you know, Trump's looking for a scapegoat on Iran.

Mm-hmm.

A, B, um, if we impeach him, that means the Senate will be tied up in an impeachment trial for the rest of the year. Um, there's a lot of reasons for the Republicans to want him gone and for Trump to want him gone. But we'll see. I mean, look, he has run the department in a horrible, horrible way. Um, he has politicized it to the maximum degree. You know, his firings based on loyalty have gutted, you know, senior leadership at the Pentagon, made it a shell of its former self.

Do you anticipate assuming Hegseth leaves, uh, by the end of the year or even sometime next year, would that preclude him from being subpoenaed by your committee?

Um, no. Um, you know, I think we could all guess how that would play out.

Right.

We've seen it enough in the last, you know, gosh, almost decade now, um, of back and forth on that. You know, people ignore subpoenas. They're held in contempt and, you know, rinse and repeat. So look, a lot of what we need to do, we are figuring out now. This is not easy. This is a really complicated set of issues. Because for all of this, you know, this American people want us to deal with the economic challenges that they're facing.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and, you know, that's bringing down gas prices. That's bringing down food prices, bringing down housing prices. Um, so we have to stay focused on that agenda as well, because I think that was one of the driving forces behind this election. Um, that and the fact that Donald Trump just proved himself to be gosh, you know, I work a lot on mental health issues, so I don't like to throw out those phrases, um, like some people do. Um, but Trump seems unhinged from reality.

Mm.

And he's running our country. I mean, you listen to one of those two-hour-long rambling speeches. Any evidence in there that he cares what happens to the people of America, or is he just riffing on a whole bunch of different things that come to his mind? And that's really dangerous.

Do you anticipate I mean, I think the affordability part is important. I think a lot of folks also want the accountability part. Is that something you guys can do at the same time? Can you walk and chew gum at the same time here?

If we do it right.

Okay.

And that is going to be a major challenge. If we appear to simply be engaged in a game of partisan insults and getting even for the sake of getting even, um, that, I think, will be a problem.

Mm.

But if we are dignified, respectful, and intelligent about how we approach it, yeah. I mean, because look, the corruption of the Trump administration is epic in its proportions. I mean, he's raffling off pardons. He's getting rich off of crypto. He's taking money and gifts from foreign governments. Um, his family is doing the same. I think that has to be investigated, and it has to be held to account. Um, you know, so I yes, I think we can do both.

Something that I would love to see happen, as I've reported on before, is, uh, it kind of exposing more to the public about the treatment of our service members overseas during this war. Now, the war may very well come to a close at some point in the next couple months or next couple years, but those are stories that haven't necessarily been told. Is that something you guys are going to be looking into?

Yeah. And we are laying out a list of excuse me, what you know, what are the top priorities to investigate.

Mm-hmm.

And that's certainly one of them. They have not been transparent about the situations for our service members. Even on casualty numbers, they haven't been transparent. On the damage to our bases, on what was or was not done to protect them, all of that stuff, um, yes, we want to get a full explanation from day one of this war. What has happened and how has it impacted our service members?

Congressman, I appreciate the time. Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

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