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"Thank you, Secretary Rubio, for being here today. You have been at multiple meetings with President Trump. In a moment, I'm going to show you a video of one of these meetings. It is from last December. It's a cabinet meeting. I'm going to ask you to focus on President Trump, and you will see that..."
[0:00] Thank you, Secretary Rubio, for being here today.
[0:03] You have been at multiple meetings with President Trump.
[0:06] In a moment, I'm going to show you a video of one of these meetings.
[0:09] It is from last December. It's a cabinet meeting.
[0:12] I'm going to ask you to focus on President Trump,
[0:15] and you will see that he is sleeping while you are talking.
[0:19] Oh, my God.
[0:20] Please show the video.
[0:22] Products they make and what American farmers grow and produce
[0:28] has a fair shot to be sold around the world.
[0:31] On issue after issue, that's been the case.
[0:33] You talk about foreign aid reforms.
[0:35] This is not our money. This is taxpayer money.
[0:39] Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting
[0:42] where President Trump has fallen asleep?
[0:45] That's false. That's false.
[0:48] I've never seen him fall asleep.
[0:49] On the contrary, the guy doesn't sleep, which is a big problem
[0:52] because he calls me at 2 in the morning.
[0:53] He calls me at 5 in the morning.
[0:55] And, you know, I like to sleep a little bit,
[0:57] maybe not 12 hours, but at least 6.
[0:59] So he works... The other day, he was at the Oval Office
[1:01] until 12.30 p.m.
[1:03] I don't know what you're talking about.
[1:05] Secretary Rubio, I'm going to show you in a moment
[1:07] a video that shows you just lied to Congress.
[1:10] Oh, okay.
[1:11] So this is a video of a cabinet meeting literally from last month
[1:15] where Donald Trump is sleeping while you are talking.
[1:18] Please show this video.
[1:21] This is a coalition of countries that line up behind the peace deal,
[1:26] behind the board of peace.
[1:27] And it's still...
[1:28] Every day is a challenge.
[1:29] But it's been driven personally by the president.
[1:31] It's the reason why we're involved in this whole Ukraine-Russia conflict.
[1:34] That's not our war.
[1:35] It's not the president's war.
[1:36] This war started...
[1:37] It never would have happened if you'd been president.
[1:39] But this war is going on, and the president is trying to end it.
[1:42] You are literally talking about issues of war and peace,
[1:45] and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you.
[1:48] No, he's not.
[1:49] If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings
[1:53] where the cameras are rolling,
[1:55] imagine what he's like when the cameras are not there.
[1:59] So I'm going to ask you, have you been at classified meetings
[2:02] where Donald Trump has fallen asleep or had trouble staying awake?
[2:06] I've never been at any meeting.
[2:07] I've never been at any meeting where...
[2:08] And the things you're showing me now, he was not falling asleep.
[2:10] And I think it's outrageous that I'm before the Foreign Affairs Committee
[2:13] of the United States House of Representatives asking questions about sleep.
[2:17] You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio.
[2:19] So I'm going to show you another video in a moment.
[2:21] The president's inability to stay awake on the job
[2:25] has caused other countries to perceive him differently.
[2:29] They mock him.
[2:30] They see he is weak and he is feeble.
[2:33] This is a video of a French news channel
[2:36] talking about Donald Trump falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony.
[2:41] Please show this video.
[2:43] Well, mark a video that appears to show Donald Trump falling asleep
[2:48] at a Memorial Day ceremony this Monday has been circulating heavily online.
[2:53] Internet users have a lot to say about it.
[2:56] It's also reignited rumors about the state of the U.S. president's health.
[3:00] Now, in the video, in social media, users say that Trump is fighting sleep
[3:05] whilst he listens to the speech given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
[3:08] and that his eyes appear to be closed for a large portion of the ceremony.
[3:13] Now, we need to remember here that this is a ceremony to honor
[3:15] and remember those U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the armed forces.
[3:21] And the idea that Trump was asleep at a somber ceremony like this,
[3:25] well, that has triggered outrage online.
[3:27] Donald Trump's inability to stay awake on the job shows that there's something very wrong
[3:32] with his health or cognitive abilities.
[3:35] And, in fact, on a number of occasions,
[3:37] Donald Trump will contradict himself in literally the same meeting or interview.
[3:41] In this video I'm about to show, it shows that Donald Trump says the Iranian military is both destroyed
[3:48] and not destroyed at the same time, something that Dina Titus alluded to.
[3:53] Please show this video.
[3:55] In terms of leadership, we've actually left the military alone.
[4:00] People would be surprised to hear that.
[4:02] Because mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody
[4:05] and then you have a country that, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild.
[4:09] You look at what happened with Iraq.
[4:12] We did so.
[4:13] Iran is in a very bad position.
[4:15] They have no military.
[4:17] All they have is good talk and they have a fake press.
[4:20] So, Secretary Rubio, instead of holding North Korean style cabinet meetings
[4:25] where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump's ass,
[4:28] I'm going to ask you to come clean with the American people and the White House as well.
[4:33] There's something wrong with Donald Trump's health or cognitive abilities.
[4:37] There's a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests.
[4:42] We have not seen the president in eight days.
[4:45] The American people deserve the truth.
[4:48] I yield back.
[4:49] I don't even know how to respond to that other than to tell you that it's absurd and ridiculous.
[4:53] And I can't believe we're in a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in front of the House
[4:56] at an important time in American foreign policy.
[4:58] Just keep lying, Secretary Rubio.
[4:59] Just keep lying.
[5:00] Supposedly someone who thinks he's a medical expert when he's not.
[5:04] The truth of the matter is we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago.
[5:08] That's a cognitively impaired president.
[5:10] But I don't like to talk about that because it weakens America.
[5:12] This president we have, this is a guy that literally doesn't sleep.
[5:15] He works day and night, long hours, every single day.
[5:18] I don't know if you haven't seen him in eight days.
[5:20] I saw him yesterday.
[5:21] I didn't see him yesterday because I was in Congress the day before.
[5:24] I talked to him at all hours of the day and night.
[5:26] He works inhumane hours.
[5:28] I've been on foreign trips with the president that he doesn't sleep in the whole flight.
[5:34] And everyone else is sleeping on the plane and he's, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to.
[5:39] The people are, so I don't know what you're referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy.
[5:43] I'm just telling you, you may not like his policies.
[5:46] You may not like his policies.
[5:47] You may not like the decisions he's made.
[5:49] But I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape or form.
[5:54] And in fact, this is incredibly active, much more so in many cases than much younger people that are around him.
[5:59] Those are facts.
[6:00] I see it every day.
[6:01] You're not going to agree because you have another narrative that you want to push.
[6:04] But those are the facts.
[6:05] I just showed you three videos of him sleeping.
[6:07] Representative Issa is recognized.
[6:09] Thanks for waking me up.