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MAGA Civil War Erupts on Capitol Hill as House Reopens

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on MAGA Mike and the Republicans in panic mode as the House finally opens back up.  OneSkin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MEIDAS at https://www.oneskin.co/M...

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Megamike is finally surfacing after shutting down Congress and chaos

is ensuing on Capitol Hill. Megamike rushed to go on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And he oddly proclaimed that he would love to do a tattoo for Donald Trump that says the word "save America Act."

He wants to do a tattoo about voter suppression. And then Megamike and Donald Trump tried to get a state regime media Fox correspondent to attack Thomas Massey. And then Thomas Massey turned the tables on the guy so brilliantly. And then Thomas Massey started going on the offense

against Megamike and Donald Trump. You've got this Maga Civil War taking place on Capitol Hill. You've got Republicans in absolute shambles on Capitol Hill. Let me show you what's going on. So Megamike rushes on state regime media Fox to Maria Barteroma.

And he's like, "I told Donald, I told Donald. You want me to do a tattoo of "save America Act." Anything you want Donald, can I do a tattoo for you, Donald?" - The President and I laughed about it in the over last week. I told him, you know, Mr. President, I don't have any tattoos,

but if I did, it's a "save America" on my shoulder, okay? We passed it three times in a house already. We're going to pass it again. And this time we're going to try to put it on a reconciliation bill and the reason that so important Maria, as you know,

is it prevents the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrats want no part of this. And remember, this is very basic stuff.

We're just going to make sure you have to have proof of citizenship

to register to vote. And then show an ID when you turn out at the ballot box. These are 90, 10 public opinion issues, and more than 70% of Democrats want to do it, but not the Democrats in the House in Senate.

And so we've got to go around them, and I look, I told Anna Polina Luna, and a couple other colleagues, I said, it makes no sense for us to shut down our good work in the House just because Senate Democrats refuse to do the people's will.

We've got a lot more to do. We've got to keep going. - Oh, then, MAGA Mike and Donald Trump tried to have this state regime media Fox reporter,

attacked Thomas Massie because Massie was one of the first people

to fight for the release of the Epstein files and Massie's continuing to fight for the release of the Epstein files, and that's how you are banned from MAGA now. And then, so this guy was out here saying, hey, Thomas Massie, are you making your ex-girlfriend sign NDAs

because you're treating them badly? And then, so Thomas Massie goes to the state regime media reporter, and he goes, are you out there watching gay porn? Are you, and then the guy's like, and then the Fox host runs away because Massie asks him

to try to prove a negative. And this was Trump and MAGA Mike's plan here watched this for yourself. - We clear up to stuff you're an ex-sustain about you with the NDA that you pressure her to sign an NDA

for the angler termination. What is that true? What's she saying about you? - Who are you with? - It's not special.

- It's all false. - And what she said about you and Boba for having an intimate relationship. - It's all false. - Why do you think she's out there saying it?

Was it because of the primary, ahead of the primary, what do you think is motivating it? - When did you all become a tabloid? Seriously, dude. - Well, no, I just thought I would give you a chance

to respond because you've never been able

to tell your side of the story, that's all. But anything you could say.

- So let me ask you, I heard that you like gay porn.

Is that true?

- Cars, man, I just want to give you a chance.

- You're so honest. - I'm not going to give you a chance. - I'm not going to give you a real news or I'm going to say, sure or not. - Not come back, man.

All you got to say is you don't like your girlfriend that you haven't been to those websites. Of course, all right. - Of course I don't like it. - Really?

- But thank you. - That's not what I heard. - Thank you for your time. - Yeah, that was my pleasure. - I'm just giving you a chance to respond.

That's all. - And you're with Fox. - Thank you. - Is that a real news organization? - Yup.

- Is this what you do for a living man or have like a different way?

- It's a chance. - And then, and then you have Thomas Massey. He goes and does this interview where he's like, "Can you believe what Maga Mike just said?" They're acting like the elections keep on being stolen.

Massey's like, "Look, I'm a Republican. Republicans control the house. We control the Senate. We control the White House. We control the Supreme Court.

And yet I'm seeing Trump and Maga Mike line about elections being rigged. How can they be rigged? We control every branch right now." That's what Thomas Massey says.

- I'll vote for the same act, but I think it's a distraction from our real problems. I think it's ironic that we control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the White House. And we're yelling election front.

I mean, we won all the damn elections. - And then you have Maga Mike Johnson back on Maria Barteroma. And one of the things that Maria Barteroma was like, "So how are you gonna achieve everything, Maga Mike?" The Senate is not returning to Washington, DC

until the least July 13th because you all in the House of Representatives couldn't even pass a rule in order to start getting legislation back to the United States Senate. So the Senate said they're leaving.

Donald Trump refused to sign the bipartisan housing and those of the Senate's like, "We're done. There's nothing else that we can do here. What else do you want us to do?" So how are you gonna get anything done,

Maga Mike, Watcher, Maga Mike says? - The Senate is gone until July 13th. They left without even a budget released. It's hard to think anything really gets done beyond that $87.6 billion supplemental for defense.

Especially since the parliamentarian already said, "Look, you've got to prove that you're actually looking at spending cuts if you're gonna put the saving American act in there." That's right, and we've been looking at that very carefully

and we'll send them over a provision that fits and passes the bird test as they call it over there with the parliamentarian. And look, I met with leader Thune, he's good man. He's got a big challenge on his hands, of course,

and I've encouraged him to do everything possible within his power to move it.

I believe he will, Maria, he understands how important

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Then recall last week

that Donald Trump refused to sign the bipartisan housing affordability bill. Trump says that he will not sign it. He says that it will actually hurt all of his rich, all-agarch friends

and the private equity companies and the people who own those companies

that he's friends with because they love gobbling up

these single-family home and preventing first-time homeowners.

Folks, this bipartisan housing bill only had five senators vote against it and less than 30 Congress members vote against it. You don't get much more bipartisan than having Elizabeth Warren on the Democratic side

and Tim Scott on the Republican side sponsored this to which Donald Trump last week was like, oh, poca-hontes, poca-hontes because Trump is a little freaking baby and then Trump blew up the signing.

And so now, the question is, what the housing gonna happen to this housing affordability bill? And I just want you to think about, you have Trump doing that

while you have all these magas out there, attacking Zoron Mamdonny, the New York City mayor who just got the New York City rent stabilization board to freeze rent prices from going up for a two-year period making good on the promises

that he made while Donald Trump lies about all of the promises that he made. Donald Trump said he was gonna make everything more affordable on day one. And here we are, June 29th heading into July

and things have never been more expensive.

Watch a maga mic says, play this clip. - Well, I met with a president for a few hours on Thursday in the Oval Office and we talked about it in great detail. The housing bill really is a Republican priority

because it will lower housing costs. We made a lot of promises to the voters and we're fulfilling those every single day of this Congress. And this is a big part of that because it will increase the availability,

the access to more housing, bring down cost,

cut regulations, do the things that we know are very important

for that market. The president, I talked about that. It linked, of course, he wants to do all those things. I'm gonna send the bill over to him. It's passed by both chambers.

I'm sending it to him on Monday and it will become law. And I certainly wanted to take the biggest boldest marker that he has and do that big Trump signature proudly on that legislation because we're delivering for the people

and that's what he wants to do. - So then you have a maga, well, not a mag. You have a Republican governor in Ohio. Governor Mike Dewine, he's also going after maga mic Johnson and Donald Trump and their attack on immigrants,

especially Haitian immigrants in Ohio, for example. And the Republican governor Mike Dewine there is like guys. You realize the first and foremost, stop being like braces and the Haitian community has been a major part of Ohio.

And then Dewine says, and they're not just great people,

but they're also critical to our economy.

And so by you continuing to push for this mass deportation of the Haitian community, you're going to continue to cause inflation to rise, screw up the economy. And we're not going to have people who are running businesses

because the Haitian community are running thriving businesses in our state and they've been integral to the economy of Ohio as they have been throughout the country, as immigrants in general have been. Like what are you doing?

They're even getting called out for their hate by a Republican. It is not in the United States' interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day,

who are supporting a family, who are by-houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses. And then put deep roots in this country and really are contributing and yank them out. I mean, look at what the mayor of Springfield says.

Mayor says that is a huge, huge mistake. You're contributing, Rob Rue says they're contributing greatly. Mistake to do that. I would cite also the two Ohio congressmen who have probably the most Haitians,

the Republicans who have the most Haitians in their district voted in favor of the extension of TPS. So what I would hope that the Trump administration would do is we're in service. Look at how it's going to impact states like Ohio.

Ohio, the Haitians are working primarily in manufacturing. You're also working in the food area. But if you look at where they're working across the country,

probably the most important area they're working is in health care.

It's Haitians who many times are taking care of your mom or your dad who is Alzheimer's. Taking care of family members who might be in a nursing home. And to say we're going to pull all those out, it's just not in our own self interest.

Yeah, we have the retirement home that my mom's in.

Has a lot of Haitians, Haitian Americans working there.

And Republican congressmen, Mike Lawler, has talked about that. What a drain it would be on the health care industry in New York. And I also just find it notable that while you have that happening, you have on the Republican side.

As well, you've got people like Kennedy, Magra Republican, Senator Kennedy. And he's out there doing this whole stick that he does, where he's like, you know, I'm not Italian. Bound a ran.

A ran is like an old man who's better hope in that he better not catch a code because in 60 days, we got to be all catwoman on around. We got to be all catwoman on a run. What does that mean? So you want to be catwoman on a run?

What are you with the hell are you even talking about?

A run right now is like a really old man who can't afford to catch a code. We have degraded them deeply. That's why we went in. They've got three wheels down and they're actual dragging. So when the press says they're holding all the cards,

they're wrong. I think we should continue to do what we've been doing. If a run wants to hit us, we hit them back twice as hard. Well, this go on for 60 days. I don't know.

But we shouldn't give in. No deal for me is OK. A bad deal isn't. Now at the end of a reasonable period of time, 60 days or whatever. So I think we ought to go back in, go catwoman on them again.

I think once again, we should eat them up and spit the bones on the floor.

And we should adopt the naivies plan of escorting ships through the strike. Now contrast that to Democratic Senator John Asov. He was asked to base a question by Monu Raju on CNN. Listen to this discussion right here. I think the president has earned the criticism and earned disgrace.

His economic agenda is a disaster for the country.

He's doubled health insurance premiums from more of an a million Georgians.

His tariffs have driven up grocery prices in the prices of just about everything else. He's been globally humiliated in Iran. Last month, Americans faced record high prices for groceries, for health care and for housing. This under a president who promised he would lower prices on day one and all the while, the president and his family are enriching themselves to the tune of billions of dollars

and the president is trying to build a monument to himself. I think it's some scene. I think he's a failed president and he's deeply unpopular in Georgia. Similarly, you have New York City Mayor Mamdaani a Democrat. Listen to what they're talking about versus what these magas are talking about here.

Listen to it for yourself. Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party. Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November and over the course of these last six months.

What we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

We've delivered free child care for two year olds for the first time in New York City

history. We've delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We've delivered 165,000 potels being paved and we've done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city's history.

That's what it looks like to have Democratic socialism and what you're seeing is that New Yorkers

experience this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well. Right now you take that and contrast that to what mega Republican senator is saying over here. Roger Munchler, here play this clip.

In this week, the housing bill that was passed by a bipartisan measure in both the House and Senate is currently stalled and that's because President Trump has refused to sign it. I want to show you what White House press secretary Caroline Levitt posted about the housing. Actually said it was quote one of the most significant pieces of housing affordability legislation in American history. She added promises made promises kept but within hours of that post,

President Trump canceled the bill signing saying that it was just a minor importance. Did President Trump break his promise when it comes to housing and affordability? Look, this is a long book right now. I'm concerned about the cost of living right now and are Joe Biden. We saw the cost of housing, health care, child care, all go up 50% and we're still

reeling from that, but we're getting back in the game again that America is truly back

That real wages are outpacing inflation right now, housing is part of the puz...

But this is classic Donald Trump negotiation style.

He's going to grab every leverage point he can and this is one to get the bigger priority

to cross the finish line.

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