IHIP News - Mike Johnson's Nightmare Comes True As Adelita Grijalva Checkmates Him

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

We are joined today by the newly sworn in congresswoman from Arizona, Adelita Grijalva to discuss MAGA's open interference in the release of the Epstein files. Order our new book, join our Substack, shop our merch, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

All right, Little Moses Mike, Grinder Johnson, had to face the music, and he had to swear in a democratically elected congresswoman from the great state of Arizona. Congresswoman Grijalva. How are you today? And welcome to IHIP News. I am good and I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. So let me ask you, when you finally went face to face with Little Moses Mike, how? How was that? What was he, was he apologetic? Did he acknowledge the lollygagging that took place? You know, he very quickly said, you know, none of this was personal. What a dick.

I'm not gonna lie. And like, you know, I worked with your dad. I mean, he's very pleasant face to face. And I've met a lot of people like that where online or their like persona is not so kind. But in person, it's a little harder to, you know, say some snarky stuff. things when someone is like literally face to face and that was sort of the situation here. All right. So let's let's discuss now what the plan is. They've sworn you in and it's my understanding that you immediately voted to release the Epstein files. Is that correct? Yes. I was the

218th signer like right then. I walked, I yielded back and walked to the desk and signed. Okay. I heard some tea reported by CNN that Trump met in the situation room with like Pam Bonn and Cash Patel and Todd Blanche and that they are going to put a lot of pressure on Republicans to not sign this release of the Epstein files. What do you know about what's going on there? So as I understand it, once I signed in the 218 signer, if they were going to change their signature, it had to happen before I signed. Once I signed, it's done.

And so now it is, we must have a vote in the House. And apparently Johnson said that he's going to speed up the vote and we'd have it next week on the discharge petition on the House floor. Really? Yeah. Okay. So obviously that Epstein Estate has been releasing a bunch of emails that clearly link the sitting president of the United States to Jeffrey Epstein. And this is some stunning stuff that we observed that Jeffrey Epstein said that he thought Donald Trump is one of the worst people. on the planet, not a redeeming bone in his body. And this is coming from the Epstein estate. So I can only

imagine what DOJ and the FBI has. In looking at how horrific this is, because at the core of it were a lot of girls, you know, children that were abused, raped, and sexually exploited by these men with the assist of Geelaine Maxwell, who played a very insidious part because she used her female to female, I'm like a mother, to really lure these women in. Robert Garcia has been really impressive with how he has attacked this, your colleague. How big of a fight do you think the Dems have in them to keep hammering this down? Because you saw the Senate capitulate a few days ago. How about the House? How are the House Dems? I know you just joined the team, but what kind of fight, what kind of camaraderie do y'all have there to stand up against this pedophilia protection ring and this fascist regime to protect our constitution in our country?

No, I think we're pretty solid. And one of the things that we keep talking about is like this should be a nonpartisan issue. You don't protect pedophiles. You don't protect people who are going to victimize and traumatize for the rest of their lives. girls and women. You just don't. And so for me, everyone that I've spoken to, and really a handful of Republicans that literally Representative Massey came right up to me and said, I am so glad you're here. I'm like, all right. Thanks so much. So it has been bipartisan in the effort. Now we'll see if their values, if an individual's values can stand up to the kind of pressure that this White House is going to put on the Republicans who vote to expose pedophiles. But I do think that it's constituents that elect us here. And while there is a lot of money that flies around on congressional campaigns,

carrying around the badge that you protected pedophiles is going to be a really rough one during the midterms, in my opinion. Okay, so when we're, I listened to you, you, when you got on the house floor and you were sworn in. And you spoke directly to two victims that were in your party to watch you be sworn in. The outcry from the victims, I think, has been overlooked. And now you have the White House in Trump's lie social. And then you have his press secretary calling this a hoax. what is your response to these victims being victimized all over again being called a hoax?

Yeah, they're survivors. They have survived something that none of most of us, I hope, will never have to experience. But the fact that they have to continue to tell their stories over and over again, to have their credibility questioned over and over again. I mean, I just, you have, I admire their strengths so much. And so when we're sitting there, and they actually held onto each other to stand up and in the house got a standing ovation for their courage and their bravery, we have to continue to call that out. And unfortunately, there are many people across the country that have had to experience this kind of traumatize, this kind of trauma. But for them to have to relive it over and over again, I believe that there are going to be more and more.

women that come forward as a result of the strength of people like them. Let me ask you this. You said they received a standing ovation, the victims. Are some of the people that are voting against the release of the Epstein file standing up and giving the victims a standing ovation? On the House floor, the vast majority of us were Democrats, because it was technically before votes, but the Republicans that were there were applauding. I didn't see anyone.

This is something I think we need to talk about a lot, that they will always want to have it, both ways. We're going to stand up and support the victims and we're going to get platitudes and Moses Mike and Caroline Levitt are going to say the most transparent administration in history. Well, at the same time, we're having 911 run for your life. How can we cover this shit up in the situation room meetings? And the duplicity of these hypocrites in the Maga Party, and they are just outright embarrassing hypocrites to have the audacity to stand up and applaud the strength of these sexual abuse survivors and then vote against their wishes to hold these powerful men accountable is staggering.

And it goes down the list, the moral rot in this MAGA party. And you're going to be right in the epicenter of it. And we've got, you know, a lot of players in the MAGA movement that are doing this right now. One of your colleagues is a lady named Marjorie Taylor Green. And Congresswoman, she's looking at a post-Donald Trump America. She sees that this man is frail. The dictator is a frail weakling now. He can't hardly put sentences together.

He's spraying perfume on people in the Oval Office and a QVC hour acting like a nut, right? Well, Marjor Taylor Green has been on the view talking about health care and how, oh my gosh, we're not doing anything about health care. And correct me if I'm wrong here, ladies, but the big beautiful bill passed by one vote, correct? So if Marjorie Taylor Green gave a shit about health care, she could have voted a different way. Yet these politicians are always double dipping and it's full hypocrisy on display. And so in the spirit of having these new Dems like you, Robert Garcia, tell me about your fight against these maga hypocrites beyond the Epstein files. But you have to call it out all the time.

You can't have it both ways. You can't say, I'm pro-union and cut thousands and thousands of union jobs. And that's one of the things that I see with so many people. There really are politicians, right? And that's why people don't like politicians. You need a lot of public servants. You need people that are going to come here and give a crap about the people that they serve. And you don't vote against the interests of your people.

And so the more that we look at supporting candidates that are running for offices that look like me, I am not the check-the-box D-Tri-C candidate. I don't have Ugas of money. I'm a Chicana from Tucson. I do not. I'm not the most eloquent. I'm not, you know what I mean? There's all these things.

I don't check a box. But in my community, they're like, I want that Rihalva to represent me. That's the kind of people that. that we need, people that come here with a set of values that you're not gonna, Washington is not gonna change them. And I've met so many, I have to say, that have been here a very long time. And they are grounded in their values at home.

And you bring those values here. You don't adopt new ones while you're here. And take it back. Totally. Pumps. I was wondering the immigration, the ICE enforcement, and you see how it is being leveled just against everybody, crimes, not crimes, U.S. citizens, not U.S. citizens. What do you have a plan to address that being in, being from a Hispanic community?

It must hit home even more because it horrifies me. Well, we, Arizona, CD7 has the three ports of entry with Mexico and Arizona in our district. So we have border communities throughout. And they are some of the safest communities that exist. We are all sick of being scapegoated, but I'm very, very concerned that this administration has empowered and emboldened ice next year with 20 times the budget that they had this year. I mean, literally, I was pumping gas with my son, and two masked people wearing plain clothes, a bulletproof vest, and a mask drug a woman out of a car. And my son, I mean, and this is, he's, you know, 17. he pulls his phone out right away and gets right in there and it's like recording and I thought

how crazy is it that this is a reality that you I mean this is like what you see on TV it's like what multiverse are we in that people can look like average people and drag people out of cars and so we have to stand up to that right now my many of my family members that came to this country overstate a visa, something like that, they're getting picked up and deported to countries. We don't even know where they are. They're literally disappearing off the streets. For a Mexican immigrant to come here to find an opportunity for a better life, that is something that has always existed.

This nation is built on the backs of immigrants. And so we need them. We need them. And this administration needs to come up with a better way. to make that pathway easier because he's going to hear from his billionaire buddies that their businesses are not doing as well because we're not here. I feel like this administration with an assist from far-right Israeli groups is using anti-Semitism as a way to erode civil liberties and to censor people. And I feel like all human rights are connected and the biggest people in this country right now that we need to highlight.

that are getting abused and bigoted treatment, dangerous, criminal, inhumane activity thrust upon them as your community. And it has a lot of parallels with the 1930s in Germany, a lot. We have people that are being denied due process. And I feel like your community's cries get kind of silenced out because we have a have an administration that prioritizes marginalized groups instead of linking them all together. And I'm very concerned about the Latino and or anybody with brown skin. Maybe they could be from, you know, across the ocean because the Supreme Court has said, yes,

now you can racially profile people. And I feel like the, this is something, the inhumanity and the kidnapping of these people and And what you described about ice, just separating people, we cannot scream about enough right now, the injustice in that. And Donald Trump won a lot of support from the Latino community. It's since eroded. Moving forward as a new voice in the Democratic Party, what would your message be to the Latino community, which is going nowhere in this country?

they can try all they want to. But Latino culture is American culture, period, right? What would your message be to your community? And I know that your community is not a monolith and that everybody is allowed to think differently and be more conservative and or more liberal. But when it comes to this type of regime and falling prey to it, what would your message be as a new leader in the Democratic Party? Well, I've been talking to a lot of people who are a little more moderate every now and again and especially on this. issue. What happens is their parents, just like my grandparents, came to this country. And then once they get here, they want to close the door. It's like, this economy relies on immigrants. We need them for every single facet. And when we start to close this door, look at what's happened to our economy since Trump's attack on the immigrant communities. We're not improving because this whole idea that we are that that immigrants take from us has been debunked many many times because we contribute taxes that we're never going to be drawn on every immigrant community does this and so

I just think we have to continue to talk about that we have to explain that it doesn't matter they don't care if you have money if you are brown they're going to deport you if they can get away with it we have a woman that has three businesses in southern Arizona Arizona employs 70 people and has been detained for three months because of some silly paperwork. And then unfortunate part is because of the backlogging courts, once he gets to court, they're going to be able to say, oh, yeah, this was a mistake. But because in Trump's America, people who look like me don't have the right to even do process. It's crazy.

Well, and the money going to ICE in their budget should be. be going to immigration courts and funding to get this system back up and running. It's just, it's, it's heartbreaking. My dad got to Congress 22 years ago and has been fighting for comprehensive immigration reform since then. Everyone talks about it. They want to piecemeal it. They want to say, okay, we're going to talk about H2A visas for worker visas, but not for any other pathway to legalization. That's what everyone wants. When I shows up at someone's house and starts asking them questions, how do you think they got the address? People have been going to courts and explaining here I am here's my here's my TIN number I'm going to pay taxes I want you to know

I want to be part of this country even if I'm not going to get one benefit for my contribution well I just want to leave you with this congresswoman I think our country is best when we highlight and embrace multiculturalism and my life is infinitely better because of multiculturalism it would be a cracker barrel snooze vest without it and so we have to fight this fight together, people from all different races, genders, sexualities, backgrounds. We all have to stand up for universal human rights. And I cannot thank you enough for your Class Act behavior during the bullying from this administration and treating you like a second class citizen when you were a democratically elected woman. And I'm so glad that you've finally been sworn

in. And you can come message on IHIP News anytime you'd like, because we have to keep pumping our pro-immigrant and pro-democracy message far and wide. So thank you so much for joining us today. And thank you for all you're doing to get that message out there. Thank you. Bye-bye.