sarah jacobs, sidney dove, and robert garcia. all right.of time talking about musk and trump. let's talk about the democrats. let's have a listen to house minority leader hakeem jeffries, leader of the democrats in the house. what he had to say when asked about the upcoming march 14th. funding deadline. >> are democrats. >> ready to. >> withhold votes on. >> the government spending bill or the debt ceiling. over the. doge and elon efforts? >> we are. working hard to achieve. >> a bipartisan. >> spending agreement. >> in. >> advance of. >> march 14th. >> so are you guys ready to withhold. >> votes on doge and elon. >> if they're not. transparent about. >> their activities? we're very. >> hopeful that we can reach a bipartisan spending. >> agreement with our. >> republican colleagues. >> by march 14th. so at this point in. >> time, you're not willing to say democrats will. >> withhold votes. >> over. >> this issue? same answer. >> okay. >> i've been around this town long enough to, i think, kind of understand what's happening here. but congre

and congressman, california congressman robert garcia joins me now.gressman, i find it quite rich that the free speech warriors at the trump justice department would be so worked up about a metaphor you used on cnn. obviously, there's no bar fight. no one is bringing weapons anywhere. but what do you think they are trying to do here? >> i mean, it's pretty. >> clear that they are trying to not just intimidate me, but intimidate other members of congress who are actively opposing. >> and criticizing. >> donald trump and elon musk from. >> actually speaking. and it's crazy. that they want to investigate me. >> for essentially using a metaphor and for taking on elon musk. and i think what's what's really disturbing. >> in. >> this moment. >> is that we know that we've. >> got to fight fire. >> with fire. we know we've got to bring the energy to this fight. as elon musk is raiding the federal treasury to give himself and his billionaire buddies a tax cut, and they. >> want to police that language. >> they want to stop us from fighting back. and so, you kn

the washington post reports that martin wants congressman robert garcia to clarify these remarks that he made on cnn, saying, i think he's also harming the american public in an enormous way. and what i think is really important and what the american public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. this is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of the country. and it's important to push back on the chairperson of this committee. all right. congressman garcia joins us now. congressman, first of all, did you receive a letter from ed martin? >> well, what's. >> really interesting, of course, is we actually our office has not yet received the letter. the washington post sent us the letter. and so we have the we have the letter. because the. washington post sent it to us. it's really unfortunate that they chose to take that avenue versus actually directly sending us the letter. but we have a copy of this letter that supposedly is coming to to our office. >> i want to clarify what you meant when you said or have you respond to it. i should say, quote, what the americ

joining me now is democratic congressman robert garcia of california. he's a member of the house oversight committee. congressman, great to have you with us on this very busy night. i'll start with, you know. the tariffs. i want to get your response to donald trump signing these orders to impose these tariffs on the three top trading partners of the united states, canada, mexico and china. and as we already have learned, retaliation probably coming down the pipeline, certainly from canada in the coming days. >> where i'm sitting right now, i'm across the. >> street from the. >> largest port. >> complex of cargo containers. >> in the. >> united states, the ports. >> of long. >> beach. >> and los angeles. the economy in this part of the country. largely depends. >> on trade. and what. >> i'm hearing right. >> now from terminal. >> operators, from trucking companies. >> from the companies that are. >> actually, of course. >> bringing goods in and out and producing. >> goods is, again. >> we're. >> back to chaos. >> confusion, concern. >> and what this is.

. >> and joining us now to discuss is democratic congressman robert garcia of california. he's a member of the doge house oversight subcommittee. and, sir, there are scores of officials across the federal government. you're well aware they've stepped down or they've been fired since january 20th. more than a dozen inspectors general, the acting treasury secretary, a number of cfpb senior leaders and probationary employees, doj, doj prosecutors who handled january 6th cases are oversight. dems talking to them. are you strategizing an approach to capitalize on what you could learn from them? >> we are, in fact, i think most democrats will tell you, especially those of us on oversight, that we've had numerous folks from inside these agencies reach out to us, oftentimes, you know, whistleblowers, folks who want to tell their stories. and i think what you're hearing and a lot of that's come out in the public is people are upset, they're frightened, they're thinking about the impacts to their families. and we're talking about people from across the country. and it's not just fed

let's bring in our next guest, democratic congressman robert garcia of california. you sit on oversight. what happened here? >> yeah. i mean, look, we were pretty clear. i mean, democrats want to ensure that elon musk, who essentially is now a co-president in this administration and has incredible powers given to him by donald trump, much of what he's doing, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional. and so democrats wanted to be very clear. we want elon musk in front of the oversight committee to testify. and so we introduced a motion to subpoena him. and, of course, republicans who have no real interest in oversight blocked that vote. but it's really important for folks to know that this entire time, elon musk has only gotten richer. and so as his wealth has increased by hundreds of millions of dollars since the election, he continues to try to raid the government, give himself big tax cuts, and is now too afraid to come in front of the oversight committee. >> so i interviewed in the last hour your colleague on the oversight committee on the other side of the ai

congressman robert garcia, thank you very much. and up next, right now, it does feel like the courts are our only hope for reining in trump and musk's power grab. but what happens if the white house just ignores the orders? jd vance has suggested they should do just that. a terrifyingly autocratic idea that we will dive into after the dangerous ladders. gutter muck. that we will dive into after the break. yuck. no wonder you hate cleaning your gutters. good thing there's leaffilter. our patented filter technology keeps leaves and debris out of your gutters forever. guaranteed. call 833- leaffilter to get started. and get the permanent gutter solution that ends clogs for good. they took the time to answer all of our questions. they really put us at ease. end clogged gutters for good. call 833.leaf.filter, or visit leaffilter.com today. if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help you keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪♪) serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or u

commerce and robert garcia who sits on the panel told punch bowl news he wants democrats to match her energy saying we can go in and expect her to act proper and have to coram. she doesn't work that way. the former fbi agent and other witnesses testifying before the panel today, waiting for the chair to gather the hearing into session. the top democrat on the panel is melanie stansbury of new mexico.

. >> ro you know, robert garcia democrat who made that off color whatever it was a joke about the picturelop lop should be embarrassed, embarrassed himself ridiculous what are you 16 years old. mark: senseless, nobody is going to do that, so i certainly take issue with that, but i didn't see the guy's name congressman who said that elon and trump are robbing our government. our government has no money. they have no money, those are taxpayer dollars what doge is trying to do is ensure that those tax dollars are going to the appropriate places we all understand reasonable people if we have to pay tax that is fine. but we do deserve to know where those tax dollars are going, and should be for causes that we support. maria: i love to see an investigation who is paid by china, would i love to see why it is, that over the last several years there has been absolutely no response to the bad behavior of china and why not? who is being paid by communist china in government i would like to know. caroline: so would i elon musk tweeted only one freaking out parasite class enriching themselves make no

. >> trace: evan barker, california congressman robert garcia going after elon musk. >> in the last congressoman green literally showed up dick pic in her hearing, so i thought it would bring one as well. this of course, we know, is president elon musk. >> trace: there it is. the whole dictator without the tater part of that. >> this is extremely embarrassing for me especially, being a former democrat that this is the way my party is behaving. all elon musk and doge are trying to do is simply do an audit. and they are being incredibly transparent about this audit, going on television nearly every single day, doing press conference cleric the democrats are behaving like children at this point. i think this video shows this as well. >> trace: tulsi gabbard is now the director of national intelligence. mitch mcconnell voted no. everybody else voted yes, all the democrats voted no. what do you think? >> four time congresswoman. she is very clearly up to the task. she's gone through major scrutiny. i think americans once again put forth a very clear vision for what they wanted america to be. the

. >> robert garcia embarrassed himself, the chairwoman marjorie taylor greene says she's planning onpr and pbs, texas congressman brandon gill the house subcommittee, good to see you tell us what struck you most what did you learn. >> thank you for having me on there's a big difference between democrats and republicans they came with receipts. this was $2.7 trillion in improper payments from the federal government like agencies like medicare and medicaid, $2.7 trillion this could be the biggest money laundering scheme in american history and you would think figuring out where this money is going would be a bipartisan effort, what we saw yesterday democrats were more interested about elon musk than they were about anything related to fiscal responsibility or accountability we will continue our efforts regardless of what democrats do we have a lot of work to do and this is extremely popular with the american people. maria: did you get answers accountability like nancy pelosi, senator chuck schumer they have been in charge for so many years how is it possible they're not saying appeal w

that said, this was democratic congressman robert garcia today. >> in the last congress chairwoman greent congressional hearing. so i thought i would bring one as well. now, this of course, we know is president elon musk. he is also the world's richest man. he was the biggest political donor in the last election. he has billions of dollars in conflicts of interest. >> laura: how stupid. >> raymond: i wish we could have cut this shorter. this has to be theward of the day, laura. it must be on the dnc morning facts. over on cnn governor chris sununu was debating the waste doge has located and the need to make real cuts. anderson cooper went right for the d word. >> some of the details that have come out like the, you know, $59 million spent on luxury hotels, is actually not fema money for migrants that's okay now? >> no, i'm not saying it's okay. don't put words in my mouth. >> so would you stop that process? >> don't be a [bleep]. >> what i'm saying is the portrayal by him is just not factually accurate. >> laura: what? >> raymond: it's so low, laura. >> this is where we are right now? >>

robert garcia. >> in the last congress chairwoman green showed a [bleep] in congressional hearing so i thought i would bring one as well. now this, of course, we know is president elon musk. >> do you think that calling elon musk a [bleep] is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the u.s. government? >> he is a [bleep]. he is also harming the american public. what i think is really important and what the american public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this fight. it is an actual fight for democracy for the future of this country. >> sandra: the comments caught the attention of the u.s. attorney for washington, d.c. comes from garcia posted a letter. it referenced his mention of weapons. this sounds to some like a threat to mr. musk and appointed representative of president trump who you call the d word and government staff who work for him. we take threats against public officials very seriously. should the house dem face consequences, brett? >> you know, look, i think elon musk, you know, he is fine being called names. pr

but devolved into a partisan battle over elon musk as democrat congressman robert garcia drew an explicit comparison when calling what the committee chair herself hunter biden billowed about. >> in the last congress chairwoman green literally showed a [bleep] pick in oversight congressional hearing. i thought i would bring one as well. spent two hours questioning why the doge leader wasn't at the hearing. >> this is the first time we are having a doge subcommittee hearing and that guy is not here. >> why doge isn't looking into musk's contracts. >> do you know how much money a day mr. musk will receive from the federal government for his contracts? >> no. >> the answer is $8 million a day. >> and whether musk has a legal authority to dig into federal departments in the first place. >> why is a private citizen being given access to this system? >> republicans say democrats just don't want to face the waste they're responsible for. >> the gravy train for a lot of these folks, it's been on biscuits wheels and it's about to run off the dadgum tracks. >> that doge is delivering on president tr

it's where we start the hour with democratic congressman robert garcia of california.ing. what is doge? and it's sort of delicious that the republicans now have to defend this, according to the polls, very unpopular new agency. >> well, look, i think. >> what it's clear. is that elon musk has been given the keys to do absolutely whatever he wants across the federal government and our agencies. this is a bunch of unelected teenagers and essentially college graduates that are running around from agency to agency, causing real harm to our institutions. and i think we've got to be very, very clear with the american public that what we have right now in the line of fire is the department of education, which is supporting children with disabilities. it's usaid, of course, which is providing foreign. aid to poor people and starving people in countries around the world. it's now attacks on medicare and medicaid. and so doge is nothing to do with government efficiency, but everything about collecting as much savings as possible so that elon musk can give himself and his billion

. >> congressman robert garcia. >> who is often on this program, comments. >> he made in another interview. earlier this month, in which he called musk. >> a close ally. >> of president donald trump. a d word, and urged democrats. >> to. bring actual weapons to this. >> bar fight. >> i mean, we knew this is where things were headed. >> the republican party is like the living embodiment of the meme. this you right. because this is what they do all the time. all they've been doing is threatening people. you literally have a person in the white house right now who led a riot full of potential terrorists against the capitol building and was threatening people all the time. so it's amazing to me that now that they're in power, they're magically concerned about civility and what's being said. here's the thing as much as i don't like the idea of the president threatening people, this is the classic response you should have like the governor of maine, i'll see you in court. these are just meant to frighten people. they're meant to frighten journalists. they're meant to frighten politicians. they'r

for example, he is targeting democratic congressman robert garcia for this comment that he made on cnn elon musk. >> i think he's also harming the american. >> public in an enormous way. and what i think is really important, and. >> what the american public. >> want is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. this is an actual. >> fight for. >> democracy, for the future of this country. >> in a letter to garcia, the u.s. attorney martin wrote, quote, this sounds to some like a threat to mr. musk, an appointed representative of president donald trump, unquote. let's bring in congressman garcia from california. so, congressman, do you want it to clarify your comments at all? did you mean to say you would bring actual weapons to a bar fight? >> i mean, look, i think. >> it's. pretty clear, jake. >> i mean, no. reasonable person would view what i. >> said, of course. >> here on. cnn as a as a threat, um, to figure of speech. i think it's. >> one. >> that's pretty well known. >> and pretty common. and i think what's. >> really disturbing. >> about this is. >> that, um. >> essential

democratic congressman robert garcia of california, he's a member of the new doge subcommittee in thend so to that end, congressman, i've got two questions for you. one, that might seem a little procedural, but first, do you guys have, as democrats in the minority on this committee, meaningful subpoena power here? >> well, look, we've tried and. >> i think that. this this committee. >> and our larger. oversight committee has even tried to get elon musk. >> to come. >> to testify. >> that's been. >> blocked by the republicans. and so a lot of. >> that's. >> being negotiated still. >> but as of right now, we're. >> prepared today. >> to go in and ask and answer. >> some really. >> tough questions. we want to see elon musk. >> but. >> we're also going to call out the corruption. >> we're going to call. >> out the fact that we. >> have essentially an unelected. >> billionaire with. >> almost as much power as the president. >> of the united states. and i think we're going to bring the fire today. and so i think even though we don't have all the power that we would like, we're going to use

commerce and robert garcia who sits on the panel told punch bowl news he wants democrats to match her energy saying we can go in and expect her to act proper and have to coram. she doesn't work that way. the former fbi agent and other witnesses testifying before the panel today, waiting for the chair to gather the hearing into session. the top democrat on the panel is melanie stansbury of new mexico. >> this hearing of the subcommittee on delivering on government efficiency will come to order. welcome everyone. the chair may declare a recess at any time. also for today's hearing, chairman comber and ranking member connelly will each be recognized for one minute after me and the ranking member will provide her opening -- provide their opening statements pray to recognize myself for the purpose of an opening statement. good morning. to gay boop -- today we begin the oversight committee on doge. there will be laser focused on bringing full transparency to waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government and presenting the plans to fix the tremendous problems we expose. we as a countr

and also yesterday i interviewed robert garcia, the congressman who got an intimidating and bullying letter from the acting u.s. attorney that we've talked about in the show, ed martin, you know, threatening him over like a figure of speech that he used in an interview about elon musk. right. and saying that that was a real threat and that he's going to be investigated, you know, which is obviously nonsense and an attack on free speech. but that's what these guys are going to try to do. they want to bully and intimidate people. and i do think it's encouraging that governor mills and congressman garcia have just said no, like, i'm not going to be bullied by that and stand up to it and show, you know, just how kind of hollow those threats are, because i you know, i think that courage is contagious on that stuff. as far as the poll numbers, i don't know, i guess i don't know, maybe i disagree, maybe people did want the bullying intimidation, i guess i don't i don't have an opinion on that. they might have wanted it. they might have not wanted it. what they didn't want, though, was again

. >> yeah, so martin also sent a letter to democratic congressman robert garcia asking the californiato clarify comments he made in an interview. that's according to documents obtained by the washington post. garcia made the statement on cnn after participating in the first house dodge subcommittee hearing in which he said this what the american public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. this is an actual fight for democracy. martin's letter to garcia said, the comment, quote, sounds to some like a threat to elon musk and government staff who work for him. their concerns have led to this inquiry. we take threats against public officials very seriously. i look forward to your cooperation. garcia told the post that his office had not received the letter and added, quote, no reasonable person would view these comments as a threat. and it's interesting that the letter was sent to the washington post, yet we have not received it. we are living in a dangerous time, and elected members of congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the trump administration. david

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