Transcript of 'We're F*CKED' Trump Freaks Out as Congress Launches Investigation!

Two words, that's all it took: "Lawyer up." That was the message from the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee to Donald Trump, his family, and everyone in his orbit. We are going to see an investigation scheme from Democrats, an investigation scheme we've never seen before. And today, from Washington to Moscow to Tehran, the world is reacting to a president who just lost control of Congress and is about to face the accountability he's avoided for 2 years. A lot of you have questions about the current Senate races, and so I called up DSCC Chairwoman Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and she joins us later in this video to talk about where things stand in Mississippi, a state that is looking increasingly likely to flip blue, and Alaska, a state that is looking increasingly likely to flip blue.

Well, I think there's going to be accountability. I mean, the reality is that we have the most corrupt person ever to be president, the most corrupt family to ever be in the White House. The amount of grift, the amount that the Trumps have stolen from the American people to enrich themselves. They're billions of dollars richer to enrich their donors, to pay off anyone that essentially bows down to their family. So it is time for there to be real accountability in this country. People want there to be justice. People want truth.

Let's walk through the list that the Oversight—that you and the Oversight Democrats put out this morning concerning. Good morning to everyone, except first, the Trump crime family. Is anyone with the last name Trump, his kids, his wife, off limits?

No. I mean, look, if you're—if you are part of that family, you have been involved in grift, and we've seen that, right? I mean, think about everything from Don Jr.'s red wedding, getting an oligarch to pay hundred thousands of dollars for the wedding. Sons sitting on boards of companies that are getting essentially contracts from the Pentagon. Trying to buy private islands. 2 billion from the Saudis, right when you walk out of the White House from Jared Kushner. The crypto schemes. I mean, the list goes on and on. And so there are serious, serious issues here.

Now, the second group on that list was crony corporations ripping off the American people. A lot of corporations leading up to Election Day kind of saw the writing on the wall and started to try to curry favor with Democrats on Capitol Hill. Will that save them from possible investigations?

Absolutely not. If you have been involved with the Trumps or you are engaging corruption or you're trying to rip off the American public, you should be held accountable for that. And there has to be real hearings, real investigations. Look, there's so much happening right now. When you look at things like surveillance pricing, for example, the idea that companies can take your data and then price at different prices for you and your neighbor just because of what they think you will pay. I mean, that is something that has to be looked at.

Let's talk about Epstein. Do you expect there to be public hearings? Because at least over the past 18 months, we've had private depositions that really weren't under oath. Do you expect these hearings to be public under your chairmanship?

There will be hearings. There has not been one public Jeffrey Epstein hearing over the last couple of years. In fact, there hasn't been one period since I've been in Congress. In fact, what we've had is we've had depositions. Oftentimes, they're not under oath. The media is not allowed in, or they're private. They're not open to the American public. What we need to have is real public hearings where we bring survivors in, where people can tell their stories, where folks can be asked questions, where the committee can be engaged. And that hasn't happened yet. We really need justice for the survivors. We need the documents from the DOJ.

Does that include getting the current attorney general possibly under subpoena up to Capitol Hill?

Well, the current attorney general has already promised to testify to the committee, and we're not—we don't understand why James Comer won't push him to do so. I mean, it's ridiculous. Todd Blanch has been at the center of the Epstein cover-up. This is a massive cover-up. It's the largest cover-up. It's larger than Watergate. Everybody from JD Vance to Susie Wiles, the president, Todd Blanch, have all been involved. I mean, JD Vance was hosting Situation Room meetings on this. And so there's an enormous amount of work to do to get justice for the survivors.

Let's talk about ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. Is that something you guys are going to be looking into? ICE agents, specifically what happened in Minnesota during the initial surge earlier this year?

Absolutely. Look, these are actually our four main lanes in Oversight, which we've talked about. The Trump crime family, the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, corporate corruption, and our fourth are the abuses of ICE and DHS. What Donald Trump has done is he empowered Kristian Elem and Cory Lewandowski early on to essentially create a pay-to-play system. There's an enormous amount of allegations around Cory Lewandowski, around Kristian Elem, where there is an alleged scheme happening where essentially people are making enormous amounts of money by selling access.

I do want to ask you, Elon Musk, do you want him testifying under oath?

Oh, I think the entire Democratic caucus wants him testifying under oath. I think Elon's work to destroy the federal workforce, stealing people's data, I think is really important. And I think we've got to ensure that we do everything we can to get accountability from these powerful men that are running, in some ways, the Republican Party in the country. I mean, this man spent half a billion dollars on the election. He has contracts. And we are funding his spending with all of these contracts that his companies are getting.

Congressman, thank you so much for the time. I appreciate you.

Thank you.

That was Congressman Robert Garcia. And now Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joins us to talk about where things stand in Mississippi and where things stand in Alaska. Two critical Senate races. But a quick word from our sponsor first.

Now our conversation with Senator Gillibrand. Great to be joined by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Now, Senator, I got to jump in because you led the DSCC this cycle. You guys had some huge wins last night in a really big blue tsunami. But two outstanding Senate races have yet to be called. Give us an update on Mississippi and Alaska.

So Mississippi, every vote needs to count. We have really great intel that there's a lot of provisional ballots that were filed in counties that we think will go for Scott Caloum. Scott ran a great race. It was an energized, grassroots-oriented race. He's been organizing voters for the last year and a half. And he's really about to deliver for Mississippi. And so I'm very optimistic. So we've sent a bunch of lawyers down. We're going to make sure all of these ballots are actually counted and preserved so there can be no shenanigans.

And what about Alaska?

And then in Alaska, again, every vote needs to be counted. We are up by, I think, last count I saw, maybe 700 votes. But we still have not all the vote is in. We believe that Mary Peltola ran a formidable race. Her fish family freedom was authentic from the beginning about the economy of Alaska and how people are really hurting. Trump's attack on Americans through his chaotic terrorists, through a war in Iran that nobody wants, has driven up fuel costs, especially in a place like Alaska where diesel fuel is really important.

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And I think it's much more.

Two and a half, your mom.

I think it's over like $10 a gallon. And so it's really hurt the ability to ship goods across that state for people to get access to groceries, to get affordable health care. It's really been devastating for Alaskans. And her opponent did not stand up to Trump, did not stop this war in Iran, did not stop these tariffs. So she's had a really strong campaign from the beginning. So I'm optimistic she's going to keep consolidating those votes and win.

If you would have told me, we would have had a Democratic senator in South Carolina, potentially in Mississippi, and a Democrat in Louisiana loses within two or three points a few months ago, I would have told you you were crazy. How did you guys do it?

You know, it was the inspiration of these candidates. We had so many inspiring candidates talking about the issues that people care about. If you look at these candidates, somebody like a Josh Turek in Iowa, very reflective of Iowans, already represented a red part of Iowa, was very authentic and believable on issues of groceries and housing and health care. You had newcomers like Annie Andrews in South Carolina, a pediatrician who understands firsthand that access to health care is everything for a family.

I want to ask you about what happens in January when you guys take over. But before we get there, we have two months of this kind of lame duck session. Do you anticipate that Cabinet members may resign, that a Supreme Court justice nomination may be open? I mean, what can happen over the next two months realistically?

Well, we will do everything we can to block any Supreme Court nominee. This administration continues to double down on its far-right judges and justices who do not support the rule of law. So we will do everything we can. I don't know what else Trump will try to do in this lame duck, but we will block as much as we can. And then when we are in charge in January, we will focus entirely on lowering costs for American families, ending this war in Iran so we can get fuel costs and food costs down, ending the chaotic tariffs that are just wreaking havoc to small businesses and farms and manufacturers across the country, and do whatever we can to get people better health care that costs less money.

Donald Trump said last night that he spoke with Democratic leaders. He wants to work with Democrats. Did you speak to him?

No. He did not call me. I did not talk to President Trump.

He did not call you.

He did not call me either.

Do you think that do you think that he is actually genuine when he says he wants to work with Democrats?

Well, I certainly hope so. Because the truth is, if he's going to if we try to get Medicaid for all the people who were already canceled off Medicaid, and we try to fix Medicare and get vision and dental and hearing covered, I mean, it would be obscene for him to veto something like that. And these are the kind of reforms and investments that could be bipartisan. So hopefully, he is interested in fixing health care and getting grocery costs and housing costs down, and hopefully ending this illegal, unauthorized, unsupported war that is deeply unpopular.

We talk about the war. Let's say the president says, you know what, I want to continue bombing. I want to keep it going. Senate majority or minority leader, potentially soon to be majority leader, Chuck Schumer today came out and said that, well, you guys have the power of the purse. And to me, that kind of sounded like a subtle threat to the president, that we won't fund the Pentagon if you continue bombing Iran. Is that kind of the position of the caucus right now?

Well, this caucus is united against the war in Iran. Nobody wants it. Our constituents don't want it. It's deeply unpopular nationwide. Over 70, 75 percent of Americans are against the war in Iran. And they all know that this war is driving the increase in costs for diesel and the costs for fuel and the costs, therefore, for groceries and other home goods. So people know this is an unnecessary war that's driving up their costs. And what makes them angriest is President Trump seems to have unlimited money for bombs and ballrooms and his billionaire buddies and not enough money for Medicaid or simple things like the SNAP program or Meals on Wheels or early childhood education.

Now, before I let you go, I do want to look ahead to 2028 and 2030 because the Senate map does become a little bluer for Democrats moving forward. How do we make sure that the wins that Democrats saw last night aren't one-offs, that James Talarico could defend this seat in six years, and that in two years and in four years, Democrats can once again play in red territory?

Yep. So next cycle, two of our top targets are definitely going to be North Carolina and Wisconsin. So we can double down on Roy Cooper's victory by electing another fabulous Democrat to North Carolina and would then try to regain the Democratic seat we had in Wisconsin. And then there'll be other seats as well. But if you look at the map, we now are really bringing blue down into the South, into the Midwest, into parts of the country that were very red before last night.

Senator, I appreciate the time.

Thank you.

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