At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) slammed President Trump.
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00:00Chair now recognizes Ms. Stansberry from New Mexico. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, some interesting theatrics today. Welcome everyone to the Oversight Reality TV show. I know Mr. Trump loves himself some good TV and today is not disappointing. And in fact, I want to say welcome to some of the members who've showed up to this committee who I've never seen here before. It's great to have you here in the hearing room with us.
00:28Now, before I get started on the topic at hand, I want to take a moment to speak directly to the immigrant community who might be watching and listening today. I want to say to everyone out there who is living in fear, we see you, we love you, we respect you, and we are fighting for you and every community that is being targeted by this administration and this Congress.
00:55We also want all of you out there to know that you have rights. You are protected by the law. And you should not have to live in fear and wonder whether or not you're going to be safe if you leave your home or if your family is going to come home at night.
01:13We see you. We see you. We are fighting for you. You have rights. Now, let's turn to the situation in California, which, of course, much of this hearing has focused on.
01:26As someone from a Marine veteran family, let me be clear. Marines are combat troops. They are highly trained, highly disciplined, lethal fighting force combat troops.
01:45And they should never, never be deployed against the American people who are exercising their constitutional rights.
01:55This is a gross and disgusting abuse of power.
02:02A disgusting abuse of power by fake tough guys. Fake tough guys who think that they can intimidate our communities while taking away their rights.
02:12And this is from the same man, the same man who dodged the draft and called our military service members suckers and losers.
02:22That's your commander in chief.
02:24And here, these folks here and the president want to say they're for our military and our veterans while they're illegally deploying service members, violating state sovereignty, gutting the VA, firing generals and lifelong service members.
02:39And you all want to sit in here and play like you're with the military and the American people while Donald Trump is planning to spend $45 million of your hard earned taxpayer dollars on a fake military parade this Saturday that they can't even fill.
02:58That they put a super PAC ad on Craigslist to recruit citizens of the city of Washington, D.C. to go stand in the parade route.
03:10Congratulations. It's made for TV.
03:13But this is serious because this is an abuse of power.
03:17So I want to read a list of grievances, obstructing the administration of justice, refusing to assent to the laws for the public good, sending swarms of officers to harass our people, keeping standing armies without consent of our legislatures, transporting Americans overseas to be tried for pretend offenses.
03:37Mr. Chairman, I wonder, do you know where these offenses come from?
03:41Mr. Chairman, no, no, aw, that's too bad, because it's actually the Declaration of Independence.
03:49That's right.
03:51It's the Declaration of Independence.
03:53And my colleagues across the aisle might want to bone up on that in the U.S. Constitution before they go attacking our communities, especially as we head into the Fourth of July holiday and celebrate our independence from an abusive and mad king.
04:08because here in America there are no kings and we reject people who believe
04:15they are and no one is above the law and we will hold them accountable but I
04:22think it's very clear today and I think it's been borne out by every witness that
04:26we have here that what Donald Trump is doing is not only an abuse of power and
04:31abuse of the military and abuse of our citizens but also y'all should know this
04:37while you're sitting here creating this made-for-TV moment that two-thirds of
04:42Americans according to the polling yesterday are opposed to what Donald
04:47Trump is doing with both immigration and the deployment of the military in our
04:52communities it's wrong it's immoral it's illegal and it's a violation of our
04:58rights and with that I yield back chair recognizes mr. Langworthy from New York
05:03thank you very much mr. chairman governor Hochul yes or no do you think someone
05:08who's committed murder or rape in this country in that they're here illegally
05:13should have tools at their disposal to avoid deportation