The MeidasTouch Podcast - Dems TEAR Republicans TO PIECES in TWO HEARINGS Today

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on two House of representative hearings called by the GOP where Democrats went of the offense and called out Republican lies. Visit https://HensonShaving.com/MEIDAS to pick the razor for you and use code MEIDAS for 2 years worth of free blades! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Congratulations on your, yeah. I'm sure it's very hard to restrain yourself. That was Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell questioning one of the Republicans' witnesses, Ben Shapiro is who they called MAGA Republicans, noticed two separate hearings today. Democrats took control over both of them, pushing back with Congress members like Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett, and others tearing into these MAGA Republicans. So the two hearings that were held today, one was a hearing called Collusion in the Global Alliance of Responsible Media. That was in the Judiciary Committee, and that's where you saw Congressmember Eric Swalwell. the EPA and think that the Supreme Court's recent order regarding agency decision making is a carte blanche authority to just stop any regulations to help our environment. Let me show you here. Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett going on the offense,

play the clip. We look at where this money is going from this administration. Rep. Jordan's district got $500,000. The chair's district got about $1.6 million in EPA grants. Rep. Jordan's district got $500,000. The chair's district got about $1.6 million in EPA grants. Rep. Green's district got $500,000. Rep. Luna's district got $300,000. And Rep. Perry's district got a million dollars. So for Republicans that may feel away about EPA and it allegedly pushing a woke agenda, I just want to know, can we get the money back? I'll yield. Next up, we have MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer talking about how he likes to eat McDonald's. Play the clip. Chairman, forgive me, do you know what the cost of 10-piece chicken with nuggets is today? Well, I buy a lot of chicken nugget meals. It's under $5. It's $4.49 at the closest one you can get here.

I mean, and Impossible Nuggets are even less. So there's no inflation at McDonald's, Mr. Ashkin. And I would say I spend more money at McDonald's than any person in Congress. And I'll stand by that. I'll testify under oath. My three kids. We certainly don't mean to bankrupt you with our environmental regulations when you go to McDonald's. And by the way, one of the things that these MAGA Republicans don't tell you when they go, well, you know, look, the cost of chicken McNuggets are up or use any other type of food product.

You know what's also up? Record profits at these businesses. Just take a look at McDonald's record profits, by the way. McDonald's gross profit for the 12 months ending March 31st, 2024 was $14.6 billion, a 9% increase year over year. It's not revenue, that's gross profit. And by the way, the CEO of McDonald's, Chris Kempzinki, received a pay package just over $20 million, by the way, the CEO of McDonald's, Chris Kempzinki, received a pay package just over $20 million, by the way. And then the CFO made $10 million. The president of McDonald's International made $8.3 million.

And the USA president made $7.45 million. You could go down and see the rest of the executives crushing it and making massive, massive amounts of money as well. Here, by the way, we have Lauren Boebert walking into a fact check by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman. Watch this. I'm asking about the EPA and I'm asking about your rogue bureaucrats that have enacted these unconstitutional regulations. Are you going to repeal them? Are you going to continue to implement them?

Or are you going to stop altogether since it's been overturned? Do you understand the ruling? Do you understand the ruling of the Supreme Court? I do, and so your question is ill-formed. No, we're not gonna stop. So you're going to unconstitutionally continue with these rulemakings in the EPA? We're going to adhere to the Supreme Court and continue to do our work.

So which rulemakings are you going to roll back? We're going to adhere to the Supreme Court and continue to do our work in accordance to the Supreme Court. So which ones are you going to repeal? The Supreme Court didn't tell us to repeal anything. They have been deemed unconstitutional. No, absolutely. They have. This was a huge victory. Mr. Regan, I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I would just like to clarify a few things for my colleague from Colorado. The Loper-Bright ruling, as you know, said that the courts should not defer to agency rulemaking if a statute is ambiguous, and instead the courts get to determine whether or not what the statute means. Is that your understanding as well?

Absolutely. Okay. So that would not require any regulations to be reversed or overturned. Correct? Correct. As I watch that, I think about the saying, better to remain silent than open up your mouth and remove all doubt and be thought of as a fool. Here's something we all know. Cheap razors are annoying. They cut you, they irritate you, and heck, they frustrate you. And don't get me started with subscription razor services. Can you say blah? That's why you got to meet Henson Shaving. Henson Shaving is a family-owned aerospace parts manufacturer that has made parts for the ISS.

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the House this year, the funding has been reduced by 20%. I would argue that it needs to be reduced by 100%. Next up, Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia. Take a look at him. Play this clip. But I also want to look at an alternative plan for your agency. Now this is Project 2025, which is Donald Trump's anti-environmental agenda. And I want to just note some of the main features of Project 2025. It includes shredding pollution regulations, gutting clean energy programs, repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden's climate law, which we know is landmark, and of course empowering corporate polluters. Now we know that Donald Trump's project 2025 destroys the EPA. He'll let corporations

dump more toxins into our air and water like he did the last time he was president. We know that he will empower corporate polluters and fill the EPA with hand-picked extremists rather than actual climate experts and who will destroy the progress that President Biden has fought for. Now, he's promising to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. And let's be clear, repealing the bill doesn't just mean reversing the historic progress that we have made. It means threatening jobs and businesses all over the country. Over a thousand projects already are underway, deploying hydrogen, hydropower, wind,

batteries, solar energy, which will all make us more green and independent and really leading us to a greener future. That's also hundreds of thousands of jobs. And we know why he's pushing this dangerous agenda. Donald Trump met with big oil executives to promise to carry out their policy agenda in exchange for $1 billion in campaign contributions, which oversight Democrats are actually investigating. And if that wasn't enough, he promised he would pay back his big oil donors with tax cuts for the rich. And as we know, worst of all, his agenda will be enabled by an extremist Supreme Court that Donald Trump himself appointed. And Lauren Boebert apparently doesn't even know

what the EPA is. Let's play this clip. Is it true that the EPA has never obtained formal authorization legislation from Congress? I'm sorry? Is it true that the EPA has never obtained formal legislation, um,itation legislation from Congress. It's never been authorized by Congress. EPA is not authorized by Congress? I'm asking you.

I thought EPA was authorized by Congress. Well, the EPA is not. The EPA has never been formally authorized by Congress. And EPA Administrator Reagan is no fan of Lauren Boebert's grandstanding. Watch this.

It's just shocking. You spend so much time with our regional staff and regional administration and region aid and have such productive conversations about how we're doing things for your district and your state. And then you take this microphone. I've also seen the coal plants that have been decommissioned in my state 100 I've seen the energy regulations that have regulated my district into poverty you're spending time so sure in your district I am I have oversight over your staff and I want to compliment them I want them to provide a service for the American people but there are so much yes there are some things that have been done well,

but not everything. But we should be 100% removed? When we have $617 billion per year in rulemaking, that is absolutely absurd. When you are taking our affordable, clean energy and regulating it out of existence and killing these good paying jobs in my district, yes, I have a problem with that.

Sure, yeah. My time has expired and I yield. Then you have the Republican Congresswoman from Michigan, Lisa McClain, just not reading what the actual EPA says, but just putting out these Fox talking points that are just complete lies. So the EPA administrator has to explain, there is no 70% EV mandate that exists. Our policy and program was rolled out with the support of unions and the workers. Read the actual regulations and read what we're actually saying before you just parrot Fox talking points. Watch this. Very quickly, there are a combination of technologies that can meet an environmental standard, and the regulation suggests that up to 60% could be met with EVs, but that rule could also be met with plug-in hybrids.

Okay, so there is not a mandate that 70% of vehicles need to be EV mandated by 2030. No. Okay. All right. That is great. I am really going to be excited to go back and talk to our people in the great state of Michigan talking about the EV mandates, that there really are no EV mandates. So we really, the auto industry doesn't need that. We shouldn't be giving incentives then because there's no mandate. Well, I don't think the auto industry or the UAW would have stood with me when we announced the rule if it was a mandate. So I clearly- So there's no, I am excited to hear about this because- Next up, we have AOC play this clip. This isn't just economic prosperity. There are people and organizations and companies responsible for this. DuPont and 3M are two of the largest corporations that were responsible for PFAS dumping in the United States.

Is that correct? Yes. Did they know that these chemicals were potentially toxic? Is that correct? We believe they did. And yet there are members here of this committee that want to defend the quote unquote economic right for a company to poison its people, the American people. Now, when we talk about economic prosperity, if you're a kid in the South Bronx, if you are a mom in rural Pennsylvania near a PFAS dumping site, who comes ahead when you get cancer and have a medical bill to pay? Who comes out ahead from that PFAS dumping? The CEO of DuPont or that mom?

So when we talk about the bills and the prosperity that gets made from here and who has to pay that, we need to understand a very simple economic concept called externalities. Externalities. The costs of pollution, the cost of poisoning that are not factored into the profit margin of the corporation that's actually wreaking havoc on this planet. And when we talk about issues like climate change, it is at its core an issue of externalities because ExxonMobil and all of these oil companies can afford to burn this planet to a crisp

because it makes them a pile of money. Then we have MAGA Republican Congress member Clay Higgins going after the EPA administrator Reagan and then kind of creepily saying, what are your plans next year? Play this clip. Mr. Reagan, do you have plans for next year, sir? You have plans for next year? you have plans for next year i have plans for every year what's your plans for next year well uh my plans are personal and i don't know i'm asking professionally well your plans to continue your battle that you that you're carrying that that torch for with with you just uh assaulting me and saying I'm un-American, now you want to know what my plan is? We definitely live in two different worlds.

Oh, yeah, we are in two different worlds. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your hearing being convened. Mr. Chairman, I have an inquiry. Gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Mfume. I'm going to reclaim my right. And you have time left, Mr. Higg Maryland, Mr. Mfume. I'm going to reclaim my right. And you have time left, Mr. Higgins.

Mr. Mfume. I have an inquiry of the chair. Mr. Chairman, we disagree on a lot of issues in this committee a lot of times. But we always ought to look and put a stop sign in front of ourselves when we start assailing, by name, the personal integrity of any witness. I mentioned this a few weeks ago with Mr. Fauci. It continues to happen. I want to make sure I'm on the record so that members of the committee on both sides of the aisle will at least respect the personal integrity of a witness before this committee. The chair recognizes Mr. Higgins for his final few seconds. This is the oversight committee. This is where government is forced to sit in front of Congress

and be held accountable for their actions. Mr. Chairman, isn't the gentleman's time, Mr. Chairman, but it's not the McCarthy era. It's not the McCarthy era. Gentlemen, you're back. It's not the McCarthy committee. Order. Chair now recognizes Ms. Norton from Washington, D.C. And then finally, we have MAGA Republican Jim Jordan acting as like an agent for Ben Shapiro and apparently calling these advertising companies to testify so that he can help Ben Shapiro get more advertisers?

Here, play this clip. I guess out of 850. Okay. Do you advertise on Fox, Breitbart, or the Daily Wire? Just to be clear again. We have a partnership with Fox at its total level. What does that mean? So Fox is one of our strategic partners for sports and everything else. Okay. Do you advertise on Fox News? No, sir. Not on Fox News, okay. And do you advertise in Breitbart? No, sir.

And do you advertise on The Daily Wire? No, sir. Mr. Jewell, same questions. Do you advertise on Fox News, Breitbart, or The Daily Wire? Not Fox Sports? We have a large partnership with Fox News. You do? Okay, so some of your people do.

Some of the clients you represent advertise there. Absolutely. Okay. And we have an ongoing dialogue with Murdoch's and Fox on a regular basis. What about Breitbart and Daily Wire? They have not reached out to us directly to have a conversation. Okay. But you'd welcome that.

Mr. Shapiro wanted to reach out to you. Of course. You'd welcome that. Okay, that's good to know. Because the guy who you just fired, it sounds like Mr. Montgomery, said that they should be blocking Fox, blocking The Daily Wire, and blocking Breitbart. But now you want to reach out to him.

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