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Rep. Krishnamoorthi on Trump’s Unlawful War in Iran

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on hell breaking loose on the House floor as the Ayatollah surfaces and Iran corners Trump and issues a dire warning. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more!...

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Thank you. Thank you. We're so into close 13 of Rule 1, the House State Journal until 230 p.m., on Monday, April 13, 2020.

All hell just broke loose on the floor of the House of Representatives as Democrats tried to introduce a war power's resolution through what's called unanimous consent to try to stop Donald Trump's unlawful, war power exertion, Donald Trump's unlawful war in Iran,

and to restrain his power with Congressional approval, which is frankly required under the Constitution. What you just saw right there, where the Magtery Publicans rushing to take the gavl because in this pro-formassession,

the individuals presiding over it, because Republicans control the House of Representatives is a Republican, the Magtery Publicans. So as soon as the Democrats requested unanimous consent, meaning if there were no objections to it,

these war powers resolution could at least pass in the House of Representatives unless there was an objection or unless a Magtery Publican declared it procedurally invalid.

So that's why you heard the Magtery Publicans right there,

slam that gavl right there, Magtery Publican Congress member, Chris Smith started slamming the gavl

down to basically say you're out of order Democrats

for simply trying to introduce a war power's resolution to say Congress should have some oversight over Donald Trump's catastrophic and unlawful war. You see Democrats right here, a large group of them, now outside of the House of Representatives,

speaking to the press about the need for diplomacy, about the need for congressional oversight. So you have that happening, a split screen because over and around, Iran's new Supreme Leader,

Ayatollah, Moj Taba, Kamini, has broken his silence. He has said, we will enter a new phase in the management of the Strait of Hormuz, also Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah, Moj Taba, Kamini, says to our southern neighbors,

you are witnessing a miracle. See it correctly and stand in the right place. Be suspicious of the false promises of the devils. He also says, we will not abandon the criminal aggressors who attacked our country.

We will demand compensation for every single damage and the blood price of our martyrs. Strong words from the Ayatollah, he's also saying, you, the heroic nation of Iran, have been the decisive victors of this battlefield.

Iran today stands at the dawn of becoming a great power. So on the one hand, you have Maori public and congress members refusing to introduce a war power's resolution

and gavling out to not even allow the Democrats to try to introduce it over and Iran, you have the Ayatollah breaking his silence. We also have heard again from M.B. Gallabov

Iran's very powerful parliament leader.

Here's what he says. Past experience has shown us that we must have absolute distrust toward the enemy. America's historic retreat and acceptance of the general framework

of Iran's 10-point plan is an undeniable victory. But we consider it an incomplete step. If the United States stops violating its commitment to negotiations may be possible in essence,

we're not even getting to the step of negotiations. We've humiliated the United States by making them agree to our 10-point plan, which says Americans leave all military bases in the Middle East.

Americans give us full reparations. Americans allow us to enrich uranium. Americans allow us to control the straightive

for moves in charge $2 million per ship.

America allows full and long-lasting security guarantees to Iran, Iran, Shiite groups, and Iraq as Bola, the Houthis, and Yemen. The United States removes all sanctions from Iran, all United Nations sanctions in Iran,

and it basically recognizes Iran as a major power player in the world.

That's why I think even though Iran recognized

that Donald Trump would likely break

Or not follow through on the 10-point plan,

the mere fact that Trump agreed to it has signaled to the rest of the world that Donald Trump is weak and pathetic in many ways when Trump begged Pakistan

before Trump's own self-imposed APM Eastern Time Deadline. On Tuesday, please, can you get Iran to re-offer us the 10-point plan? Will agree to it? Will agree to it?

I mean, the Trump regime literally drafted

the social media posts for prime minister, Shiite, for Pakistan. The Trump regime, Iran was like, okay, you're going to publicly announce that you agree to these terms.

The powerful United States, the superpower.

The country that's let the world is going to agree to all of these terms. That right there is a bigger victory than we could ever ask for. I mean, that's whatever.

And they're like, well, if the United States breaks the agreement, we'll just continue to control this trade-in for moves, which is what they're doing right now

and what we're seeing as well as Donald Trump is now threatening all of his, all of the NATO countries and European countries that you need to send ships to the

strait of her moves immediately. Send the ships or else or else. What we're actually seeing happening

is a number of nations, as John Laryyer writes.

A number of nations, including France and other European countries. They're just speaking directly to Iran right now. They're not speaking with the U.S. not sending ships to the strait of her moves.

They're going to speak with Iran because Iran's the power player right now. They're the ones who are controlling things. So they're just going to work by landly with Iran.

They saw how easy it is for the United States to collapse and seed all of those ten points. You also have Iran's foreign minister, Iraq, G, posting the following moments ago. He goes Netanyahu's criminal trial

resumes on Sunday. A region-wide ceasefire, including in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the U.S. wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy,

that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb, but we are prepared for it. They're mocking Trump. Iran is mocking the Iran is behaving like the superpower

and Donald Trump is behaving like Iran used to behave. That's the wild tables are turning.

Here's what Donald, after all, I've just read to you.

Here's what Donald Trump says. Trump says he's very optimistic about a deal with Iran. They're much more reasonable. They're agreeing to what they have to. If they don't make a deal, it's going to be very painful.

I spoke with BB. I spoke with BB Netanyahu. We have to be a little more low key. A little more low key. That's what Donald Trump's telling NBC.

How utterly, utterly pathetic. And folks, we'll take a look right now at what the oil markets look like. The latest U.S. oil prices have surged. $101 a barrel, they're up 11% in the past 24 hours,

as growing doubts exist about a U.S. Iran ceasefire deal. Or, you know, the oil companies are saying, if Iran controls the straightive removes and that's your plan. And this is what the surrounding Arab nations are saying. It will make it prohibitive, cost prohibitive for us to get oil out

if we have to pay $2 million for a exit fee,

which we never had to pay before this catastrophic war started.

And so we're seeing that setting in the market, this sober realization, which should have said in before, that Donald Trump made the worst deal. I mean, you couldn't have made a worse deal than what Donald Trump just made. You know, and then you have the Trump regime officials now going on,

state regime, media, and they're trying to act like things are going really well.

I mean, what do you got here? You've got, you got what?

As the economy is contracting, you've got Kevin Hassett over here saying, "Oh, actually, you know, we think the economy's going to get much better. We expected to be gangbuster soon, just even though the latest fourth quarter GDP numbers show that the GDP contracted even more than expected. Initially, 1.4% was what fourth quarter GDP was.

I mean, 0.7% for the fourth quarter GDP. Now we learn that the fourth quarter GDP was 0.5%. And remember, this is when Howard Luttony, a commerce secretary said, "It's going to be gangbusters, things are going to be amazing." So this was Kevin Hassett moments ago, where he was like,

you know, we think that the economy's going to get much better. Just 4% 5% growth, it's coming. It's right around the corner here play this clip. All of that is happening because of optimism that President Trump, not only will resolve this in the short term,

but in the long term, his policies are going to create a golden age. And so I began the year with the guests that we'd probably be in the 4-5 range for economic growth because of all this. And I'll stick by those numbers. I think this is a temporary distraction that will very, very quickly go away.

You saw that when you saw the market celebrate yesterday when they thought

That this would be over.

"We want to bring a democratic Congress member, Roger,

to Morty, Congressman, Christian Morty." I mean, we're seeing this Ponzi scheme

playout in real time. It's right around the corner, don't worry. It's all going to be amazing. And meanwhile, they get us into these catastrophic and unlawful wars, that compound things and make it worse.

But always in a crisis mode creates a distraction,

whether it's a distraction from the horrific economy, the distraction from the Epstein files, the distraction from a myriad of other things that Donald Trump is doing to destroy the country. And that's what Ponzi schemers do.

Distract. There's always an emergency. Look, there's a look this way. And meanwhile, you see what's going on. What do you make of this moment, though, as this catastrophic wars following the same kind of Trump playbook,

which is now he does the fraud deal, now we're in. And all it does is weekends us in the hand, because everyone looks at us like what the hell's going on with the United States of America, man. Look, as you said, this illegal and constitutional war

has been disastrous, not only for our national security, but for our economy. I mean, you don't have to go further than the gas pump, where you're starting to see $4 gas go to $5. And it's going to be $6 to $7 in places like California pretty soon.

And when I hear Howard Lutnik say, you know, this economy is going to be humming. I think he's referring to humming the blues. And you know, at this point, you're right. I think that they're trying to distract from all their domestic problems

having started this foreign adventure. But now, you know, Kevin Hassett is saying this distraction is a distraction itself. I mean, it's become a disaster. And I think that we are kind of in this situation

where it's a complete man made disaster. And it is not what the American people signed up for in the least. They are complaining about their gas. They're complaining about not being able to buy a home, which by the way is becoming more unaffordable by the day

because of inflation. And as the Fed hikes interest rates, or considering hiking interest rates, it's going to become even more unaffordable. So this is just a catastrophe right now.

The most important currency, I think, of governance.

And international policy is trust. And when trust and good faith is lost, the system disassembles.

And what we've always been seeing with Trump's fake deals

that he announces, he's doing that right now with Iran. I mean, Trump makes a social media posts. We've agreed, so what he said, we've agreed to the 10-point framework put forward by Iran. Then he reposts the Iranian Foreign Minister Iraq cheese message

about a 10-point plan. And then the day later, J.D. Vance, while leaving of all places, hungry, where he's propping a Victor Orban, a Putin puppet, says, you know what?

M.B. Gallaboff, the Parliament leader of Iran, doesn't really speak English well. And so there was reasonable misunderstandings here, like they thought Lebanon was included in the ceasefire. We never did.

It's an English. They don't understand English well. And so they actually adopted our 15-point plan. And it was just the language barrier. I mean, I kid you not.

That's actually what they're saying and what they're pulling right now. God and Brisbane. Yeah, and you see Wall Street's not buying it. They don't believe that this war has necessarily even gone

into ceasefire, let alone that it's going to end. And so you see these oil futures trading higher and higher and higher.

I think the one big thing that has emerged is,

we may be quote unquote winning militarily in certain regards, but we are losing economically. Ben, I mean, you can see that the Iranians

have basically recognized their control of the state of Hormuz,

and they are using that leverage to the health. And we are kind of in a situation where we basically expose a huge weakness of ours. And the Iranians have now going to use that leverage to get all kinds of other things that we would otherwise not

in any way agree to. And that's what I'm concerned about. I'm concerned yet again that this illustrious group of negotiators, Jared Kushner and WICCoff and Vance are going to Pakistan and are going to basically

negotiate something that again, seeds are foreign policy interests and national security interests. Just as they have with regard to Ukraine and Russia. And we're just becoming less safe as a result. So where do we go from here?

I mean, obviously, you know,

this is how Trump wants this to play out for the next three years. Oh, yeah, by the way, before I get to that, I am still very concerned about the insider training that's happening at the White House and in the executive branch. The people in the know with regard to the ups and downs of

what's going on with the Iranian war.

I think there's a lot of insider training going on.

People are making money off of the markets, generating the way they have and the oil prices going up. Getting to your point. Where do we go from here? We bind with our friends partners and allies once again

to try to get a diplomatic solution to all of this. Look, the Iranians must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. But I'm concerned that everything that we've done has caused them to accelerate that program. We need to have free shipping through the straight of four

moons. And again, our actions are causing the opposite. They're strengthening their control over the straight of arm moves.

And then finally, we need to reduce their nefarious activities

and their ballistic missile program. And I think right now, those are unfortunately entrenched even more than before. So we are just in a world of hurt right now. We got to get to a better place, ASAP.

You know, and how do Democrats, though, make it clear?

Or set aside Democrats, just the media, everybody. Just make it clear what's happening because this is the cycle. You know, Trump will do this for the next few years. He will break it. But, you know, he'll keep the Ponzi scheme afloat kind of just enough

by, you know, robbing Peter to pay Paul, you know, as they say. And then, whether it's a democratic president or whoever that's going to be. And then they got to look at this and they go, you know, it's a Biden moment. Holy crap.

Like, I got to fix this, that and the other thing. And for me to fix it, I've got to do surgery. And for me to do the surgery, I got to open up the body. And to open up the body, it's going to look ugly. But that's the responsible thing to do.

And the moment you start opening up the body, then your colleagues on the other side, they go, "I'm a fiscal hawk." And this and I'm that, how dare you. And then Fox starts blasting. Could you believe this, that and the other?

The fixing. It's not easy to fix things. But then you get blamed as being the arsonist by the arsonist when you're putting out the fire. How do we break this cycle?

Well, first we have to point out what's going on right now. We have to do it in a unified fashion.

I think that people already realize it in their gut.

I think there's tremendous buyers, remorse, Ben, among people who voted for Trump. I think they see that. I talked to farmers, for instance, and they are going through hell right now,

because their fertilizer costs are through the roof, due to fuel prices going up,

which is an essential component in making fertilizer.

At the same time, their counter tariffs are hitting them in the pocketbook as well. And so these are squarely Trump voters. And so these are folks who are having second thoughts about Trump. And it'll be very interesting to see what happens in places like Iowa,

for instance, with their upcoming gubernatorial races, and other statewide races that they consider. Do they want to go the same course or do they want to go a different course? So we have to point out what voters actually voted for and got from Donald Trump. That's step one.

Step two, we have to talk about what do we want to do, right? And I think what we want to do is we want to focus back on people's pocketbook issues. We got to end the tariff chaos. We got to stop these crazy military adventures. And we have to kind of focus back on restoring some of these cuts

that have decimated people's health care, whether it's in Medicaid or their food stamps, or, for instance, even in the IRA, the inflation reduction act. Remember, one of the reasons why we are so in soup right now, because of this Iran war is because of our reliance on fossil fuels.

And oil, okay? And the inflation reduction act was in part a way to incentivize the growth of our solar and renewable energy industries

to basically win us off, dependence on those fossil fuels and that oil, which Iran is now taking very strong advantage of.

And so if we really want to get out of the grips of being dependent on the benefits of the rulers of Iran or in the Middle East, we got to get our act together with renewable energy. So those are the types of messages I think that we need to continue with.

Of course, holding the Trump administration accountable for all the horrible ...

whether it's with regard to the Epstein files, whether it's the economy, whether it's ice or anything else.

Congressman Christomorthy appreciate you coming on as always.

Appreciate your leadership in Congress and fighting back in these crazy times.

Thank you so much, Ben.

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