🚨TOP Trump Official makes SHOCK ADMISSION at SENATE HEARING!!

[0:00] very serious incriminating admissions surfaced today on capitol hill as donald trump's top [0:05] military officials and top cabinet members sat under oath and were cross-examined by the united [0:12] states senate and the house of representatives let me show you what went down as these incriminating [0:18] admissions surfaced you had donald trump's commander of centcom brad cooper testifying [0:24] he was cross-examined in the united states senate democratic senator gillibrand cross-examined him [0:31] about the war crimes being committed in iran she asked about the status of the investigation [0:37] of trump's war crimes blowing up an elementary school in manab and the numerous other instances [0:43] that have been documented of trump war crimes in iran blowing up other schools and hospitals now [0:49] brad cooper the commander of cencom said we are unaware of any other incidents and none are [0:56] currently being investigated to which gillibrand said wait a minute so you're not even conducting [1:03] investigations and that's why you're saying that these incidents aren't taking place watch this i [1:09] think perry mason mic drop moment for yourself play this clip have you been implementing all the laws [1:15] that are required under current law to minimize civilian death senator we have executed every [1:23] operation consistent with the law of armed conflict the subject of civilian casualties is a particular [1:28] passion of mine we pay attention to it we follow all the procedures and have gone above and beyond to [1:34] in my case personally warn the iranian people of several instances during conflict where they were [1:39] being if they've been warned how did we then bomb 22 schools there's no indication that we have that [1:46] that that has been corroborated how many schools have we bombed there is one active civilian [1:51] casualty investigation from the 13 629 missions so how do you explain the publicly available [1:57] information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals there's no way that we can [2:02] corroborate that no indication of that whatsoever senator there's no way you can corroborate or no [2:07] indication of it which one no indication well the indication is what's publicly available there is [2:13] indication have you investigated those claims we have not why have you not if this is a passion of [2:20] yours if you believe that the civilian casualties are not consistent with the law of war and not [2:25] consistent with human rights obligations that our military regularly follows with great pride and [2:31] great diligence why have you not investigated those allegations when they're publicly being made [2:36] on the cover of the new york times i'll be happy to take a look at the in each instance i would like [2:41] a report to do that i would like a report from you from your team about whether there have been [2:50] attacks that have resulted in the destruction of schools and hospitals and if so why and how then [2:57] last have you managed the 90 cut to the personnel who are supposed to avoid civilian targets happy to [3:05] provide uh any any report and i would invite you and every staff member here to come to tampa to look at [3:09] the process to see exactly how how it works thank you thank you admiral then you had senator gillibrand [3:16] cross-examining scott turner scott turner is donald trump's housing and urban development secretary [3:24] and he continues to blame everything on former president biden gillibrand had enough of this i just [3:30] want to show you this moment first where gillibrand's just like enough enough here play this clip [3:36] irregardless of all of that during the biden administration record funding oh my god if you [3:41] talk about it's like record funding it's like two children saying i didn't do it my brother did it [3:46] that's what i have to go off of just explain record for your record record let me just show you a [3:52] longer part of that exchange where gillibrand is asking very serious questions okay if you scott turner [4:00] trump regime have an approach that's better than former president biden tell us what you're doing [4:07] when it comes to housing that's better i know you just want to criticize biden with everything but if [4:13] you have a better plan tell us about that so we can assess it so what's your plan biden biden biden biden [4:20] she's like enough stop with the biden tell me your plan what are you doing what do you stand for [4:26] here play this clip and what i will say and i offer this is number one the point in time uh report in [4:33] the biden administration hud uh said that we had 770 000 770 000 people in america that were homeless [4:42] at one given time and this is with record funding so we have record funding but yet we have an increase [4:48] right so what is your what is your record you've had this job for well over a year i just want to know [4:55] did you get the number down do we have 700 000 homeless still or is it a million or a million [5:00] point five so i get you want to do things differently and this committee will support you [5:06] as long as the goals are good okay but where's the results the the report is delayed over a year over [5:12] a year can i offer this to you yes but we have no i just don't want to hear about what you don't [5:17] like about the biden administration you're in charge you have a vision let's see it let's see the [5:22] results and you know what i do i thank god that i'm in charge so we can do stuff different because [5:27] the plays that were ran before i got here they failed i've been here let me speak if you will [5:31] i got here you said i have been here a little bit over a year but you all had during the biden [5:35] administration four years stop talking about biden talk about your record funding this is so [5:43] this is so inaccurate unhelpful and doesn't let this committee do our job if i may the point in [5:50] time report would be out by now if we did not have an unprecedented government shutdown it would [5:56] be out by now if we weren't in constant litigation it would be out by now hud has a great form we have [6:01] a great team and we move very expeditiously in what way does litigation not okay mr secretary i think [6:08] you're obfuscating i'm not what way does litigation slow down your report a government shutdown helps us to [6:16] not be able to work it was oh i get that but tell me about the litigation point in time report would [6:21] be out right now if we did not have a government shutdown irregardless of all of that during the [6:26] biden administration record funding oh my god if you talk about it's like record funding it's like [6:33] i didn't do it my brother did it that's what i have to go off of that's what i have to go off [6:37] explain record funding your record record homelessness we have to do something different [6:42] switch topics if after i'm gone if after i'm gone if it's still record i don't want to record [6:47] home you know what after you're gone is too late for the families that are suffering in new york [6:52] it is today do you know what it's like to be a homeless little girl who has to have a girl scout [6:58] troop just for other homeless little girls because that's all they have that's the only consistency [7:04] they have in their life so i get you have a different vision it's happened in my family yes ma'am i do [7:09] i need to know i'm not talking about what i've heard i'm talking to you about what i know and [7:14] what i do know the housing first model failed similar questioning from democratic senator patty [7:22] murray she's saying okay look your plan as we read it your budget rather cuts housing significant amounts [7:31] of cuts to housing so if we're cutting it what's your plan to build the housing that we need affordable [7:38] housing biden biden biden biden and she's like stop with the biden what is what are you doing [7:44] watch what goes down here play this clip with all due respect the president is clear on what he wants [7:49] to do my job is to run hud and to take down the regulatory environment which i hear from the [7:54] industry experts as i travel the regulations and the regulatory environment are crippling building in [7:59] our country you you have a different view than i do and i just want you to know that if we use that money [8:05] for housing we could build 1.1 million affordable housing units that is a huge dent in the 7 million [8:14] units of housing that you yourself say that our country needs but your budget actually cuts housing [8:20] so let me ask it a different way can you help more families with housing with 84 billion or with 73 and [8:27] a half here's what i'll say here's what i say in the previous years before we got here housing affordability [8:34] well okay this is the go-to answer for every secretary is go back to as a secretary i'm [8:40] just giving you the facts your administration sir interest rates were up inflation was up [8:46] regulatory environment was crippling it doesn't matter the administration these are the facts [8:50] ma'am and so i'm dealing with these facts now to bring mortgage rates down your administration and [8:56] build affordable housing i'm asking you about what you could do with this housing and how we address [9:02] the number one issue facing many of my constituents and many people in the country and the answer is [9:08] you could do a lot more work and help families with housing with funding that went to housing and not [9:14] one and a half trillion dollars for a war thank you very much thank you senator now i'll show you [9:20] where democratic congress member maxwell frost flusters trump's atf director with some basic [9:29] questioning and i love this line of questioning by frost because he doesn't let atf director saccata [9:37] just get away with it answer the question answer the question we know the corruption answer the [9:42] question here play this clip did you agree to enact any of these regulations in your discussions [9:46] say that again did you agree to enact any of these regulations in your discussions before you were [9:51] nominated well first off these are proposed it's just yes or no sir yes sir sorry that doesn't answer [9:56] the question it does answer the question did you agree to enact any of these regulations or put forth [10:00] these rules or proposals i know how the process works director so you don't actually yes i do no you [10:05] don't yes i do did you agree to put forth these proposals for rule changes while you were having [10:13] discussions about your possible promotion yes or no that's it the answer is not going to be yes or no so [10:19] the answer is their proposals not enacted rules and yes uh their proposed rules yes where they discussed [10:26] while you were talking about your promotion yes or no sir this has nothing to do with what sir i i i [10:32] i answer the questions you answer the questions sir i'm just asking i'm not going to answer yes or [10:36] no to a question that can't be answered yes or no sorry why can't it be answered yes or no because [10:40] you're intentionally trying to argue with me here about something that you're completely wrong on [10:45] uh first of all the regulations are not finalized i know i'm saying proposed rules because you keep [10:51] telling me they're enacted and they're not enacted proposed rules keep mixing proposed rules were those [10:57] discussed while you were talking about the possible promotion yes or no they were discussed with no [11:04] guarantee of any sort of promotion as you know the senate does gets to make a decision that i'm not [11:09] involved in yeah so in your discussions with folks in the administration about your possible promotion [11:14] the proposed rules were discussed with them you're saying yes of course they were i've told [11:19] you that thank you times that's all i wanted were you promoted do you believe you're promoted to do [11:25] that to put forth this package of 30 different proposals this is not going to be yes or no answer [11:30] either so sir i could have retired in november i didn't need a promotion promotion i'll take my [11:34] time back i know you could have retired in november you're you're you've been at the atf for a long [11:38] time you've done great work i'm just concerned about the fact that on the same day as your [11:42] confirmation i understand you move forth with a package of over 30 changes giving the public how [11:49] many days does the public get 90 90 days for a huge package of 30 different things that you i know for [11:58] a fact help work on i did you not i read every one of them yes sir no no no i'm saying you worked on [12:05] let me be clear you worked on a lot of these proposed rules that were enacted by the atf under the [12:10] biden administration that helped save lives yes so so a couple things a year no no it's just yes [12:15] or no did you work on some sorry it's not yes or no it is yes or no did you work on some of the [12:20] divided administration put forth to save lives no you did it no you're saying you didn't under [12:25] oath that you didn't work on any of those i'm sorry i didn't work on any of the rules not one i [12:33] i don't believe that's true that's great i don't believe that's true in fact i know for a fact that [12:38] you worked on some of the rules under the viden administration then you had democratic congress [12:43] member kasar going to the house of representatives here cross-examining linda mcmahon donald trump's [12:50] education secretary about all of these cuts she's made to education while at the same time donald [12:57] trump and his regime are spending a billion dollars to fund his ballroom of taxpayer dollars play this [13:03] clip can you tell me how much more or less it costs to give a child free lunch at a public school [13:08] well the department of education does not control that's not part of our budget i know [13:12] but when the usda does that funding it's about four dollars and sixty cents for a school lunch [13:19] do you know about how much the average school teacher makes at a public school per year that's [13:27] varies across different states anywhere from forty some thousand to ninety some thousand that's right [13:31] yeah that's right it's about sixty four thousand dollars on average nationwide so here's an easy [13:37] one because it's all over the news can you tell us how much congress is being asked to vote on next [13:44] week for president trump's ballroom i don't know that answer it's a billion dollars and you're a [13:53] businesswoman so i'm hoping you can help me do some math here four dollars sixty cents for a school [13:58] lunch a billion dollars for a ballroom can you tell me about how many free school lunches that billion [14:06] dollars could pay for it is my understanding on the ballroom excuse me and i've heard the president [14:12] say this the taxpayer dollars will not be used to build the ballroom but they are donations from [14:17] private enterprise so um mr chairman i'll have entered into the record some republicans this article [14:23] from nbc yesterday some republicans aren't sold on one billion dollar price tag for trump's ballroom [14:28] project and party line gop bill without objection we are voting on a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars [14:35] in addition to those private donations and so for those billion dollars in taxpayer dollars [14:41] at four dollars sixty cents a lunch that is 217 million 391 304 lunches that's lunch for more than [14:51] a million kids a million americans for the entire school year but let's say that we're not going to [14:56] talk about lunches because that's usda we can talk about teachers at sixty four thousand dollars a year [15:03] do we know how many new teachers we could hire if we sent a billion dollars out to the states for [15:10] reducing class sizes and hiring more teachers i'm sure you have that number yes it is fifteen thousand [15:16] more teachers or we could pay for the office of civil rights that's being cut in this budget [15:21] seven times over i think i think you get the point so here's my real question here as secretary of [15:29] education what do you which do you think helps our nation more getting free lunch to more than a [15:36] million more kids fifteen thousand more teachers or the ballroom i think those are incredibly um [15:47] weird comparisons let me share with you the moment where democratic congress member takano was cross [15:54] examining mcmahon on all of the cuts that doge made to the office of civil rights and other critical [16:01] uh departments or divisions within the department of education only to then have to rehire everybody [16:08] when they realized that these jobs were needed but it really just kind of crippled the department of [16:14] education play this clip intensive over half of your staff was fired by that doge decision but you [16:20] didn't stand up to that dose decision did you you came into office unprepared and didn't know the [16:27] importance of ocr did you oh no i i i know the uh importance of ocr okay then why did it take you [16:32] 10 months momentum you knew the importance why did it take you 10 months to figure out and say hey i need [16:39] these people back in the first trump administration 12 000 uh 1 200 cases were resolved and in your first [16:48] year only 112. that's a lot of kids out there unprotected by the secretary of education as a matter of [16:55] fact it cost taxpayers 38 million dollars to pay for these ocr employees that you put on administrative [17:03] leave for 10 months or you failed to say bring them back you didn't rescind you didn't rescind this [17:10] decision until 10 months later um uh you know you told senators that you were bringing back staff um so [17:19] you are bringing back staff right yes we are rehiring attorneys and we have uh we have already addressed now [17:26] 4 000 uh of cases at ocr because during the trump secretary those resolved 4 000 cases are not [17:33] resolution agreements are they part of them are only 112 this past year well in the last a lot different [17:40] than 4 000 you're trying to confuse the matter 12 4 000 you're talking maybe dismissals case dismissals [17:46] well in in total we have addressed 4 000 let's get back to this i heard and well uh madam secretary i'll tell [17:51] you one of the reasons i i here's my thing the president budget you know there's the whole thing [17:58] with chris murphy is is are you are you disagreeing with the president you're here to testify in the [18:03] budget are you disagreeing with the president's budget which cuts ocr even more the budget that we [18:09] submitted uh is it cuts ocr even more doesn't it it is a floor for hiring we want to increase those [18:16] numbers but we said president's budget cuts ocr even more doesn't it just amount for it because it is a [18:23] floor of hiring madam secretary i'll ask you the question again does the president's budget [18:28] raise the budget for ocr keep it even or does it lower the budget for ocr staff i'll repeat what i [18:34] said madam secretary you had a week since the senate help committee hearing to figure this out from when [18:41] your question was senator murphy you couldn't answer his question i'm answering i'm asking you a similar [18:45] question is the president's budget you're submitting is it have they lowered the ftes for ocr staff i've [18:56] just answered that but you must know you did not you're not you're not answering question well is it [19:00] lowered it's look i have the budget right here the budget says they're cutting the ftes are you [19:09] disagreeing with this gentleman's time are you going to allow me to answer oh the minute of an answer yeah [19:14] and we heard from democratic congress member courtney grilling mcmahon on increasing education costs for [19:21] nurses we know that the trump regime has attacked nurses has called nurses not professionals has said [19:28] a nursing degree is not a professional degree just assault after assault on nurses um and here's [19:36] watch what mcmahon says let's play it it's uh actually eighty thousand dollars for a three-year program [19:41] so again that just the tuition for that program exceeds the caps that you put into place with this [19:49] hr1 rule so for that for those students they are really going to have no opportunity unless they come [19:55] from families of great wealth except to go out and try and find loans in the private market where [20:00] interest rates are higher and the underwriting uh process is going to disqualify some people we have a [20:08] nursing shortage in this country and as ana pointed out this rule is actually going to undermine and and [20:17] and um damage the ability of this country to actually educate and and bring online nurses that again in [20:25] the numbers of hundreds of thousands are open and and needed at this critical time so based on your [20:31] experience which again is right local for you where the tuition of the university that you sat on the [20:37] board of trustees exceeds the lending caps that you put into place what do you say to those nurses [20:43] who asked for your consideration during the comment period that you brushed aside well first of all [20:50] and thank you for bringing that up so we can address it uh i do think that nurses are incredibly [20:56] respected well your rule certainly doesn't and uh show that well um let me just address this issue [21:03] you know we looked very very carefully at the entire nursing profession 95 of the nurses that are in [21:11] programs do not uh exceed these caps 78 of the nurses that are moving for graduate programs do not exceed or [21:21] come up to these caps we were very carefully looking at the cost of these programs across the country [21:28] there are outliers there are programs which they cost more but there you can get your degrees and [21:34] many universities around the country that don't come close to charging these amounts and our goal [21:40] you you i have to uh disagree with your framing of this whole situation because our goal is to bring [21:46] down the cost of higher education and since we've put in these caps just this week uh university of [21:54] california that's great so the but this week also inflation went up 3.8 across the country your own data [22:02] in terms of analyzing this rule making process actually showed that for nurse anesthetists at [22:07] least 28 percent of them who are in education right now have uh costs that exceed the caps nurse [22:14] practitioners 23 percent and family uh practice nurses by 22.6 this is from your own department so you [22:21] didn't even like and you know listen to your own people and staff in terms of what cohort of nurses are [22:28] going to be excluded because of these caps and who are going to have higher borrowing costs if they [22:34] want to complete their degrees or yield back mr chair and here's what senator kane democratic senator [22:40] from virginia has to say about it's very bizarre that this regime you're hiding a bunch of kind of [22:47] critical stuff from us when it comes to um you know when it comes to the war when it comes to we've never [22:53] had this hidden from us before what what is it that you're hiding here play this clip admiral cooper and [22:59] to my colleagues on the committee here's something that's pretty amazing that we shouldn't settle for [23:04] the administration is refusing to allow members of this committee to see the olc opinion stating the [23:11] legal case for war we've always had the ability we're armed services members we're being asked to fund [23:18] a 1.5 trillion budget but our request to the doj to see the olc opinion justifying this war they have [23:26] refused to allow members of the armed services committee to see it u.s senators appropriators [23:32] we're not allowed to see it what are they hiding if they're if they will not allow us to see the legal [23:40] rationale for the war what are they hiding and mr charles just concluded say i hope we might as a [23:48] committee whatever our agreements about the wisdom or the legality of the war i hope we might as a [23:53] committee agree that we should at least in a classified setting be able to read the legal opinion [23:59] upon which this entire 76-day war is based thank you mr chair and then you have pete hegseth out there [24:09] making videos of them like the trump they don't care about transparency they just care about [24:14] propaganda well you have all of this going on you then had hegseth cutting propaganda videos here's [24:19] what hegseth made let's play despite what you might hear in the media america is not in decline [24:25] we remain the strongest military power on earth but that power requires renewal and with global threats [24:31] that are constantly evolving it's time to make a 1.5 trillion dollar investment a generational down payment [24:39] there you have it folks let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers [24:43] thank you all so much for watching want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our sub stack [24:48] at midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from ron filikowski add free episodes of our podcast and [24:54] more exclusive content only available at midasplus.com