🚨 MAJOR Altercations BREAK OUT in Capitol as GOP STUNT BACKFIRES

So two major altercations just broke out in the Capitol building as MAGA Republicans are getting so desperate. They're trying to pull these public stunts of like getting in the faces of Democratic lawmakers and the Democratic lawmakers are not taking it and they're fighting back. We have it caught on camera, folks. So the first altercation involved MAGA Republican Congress member Mike Lawler from New York. He brought the press with him and he was going to confront Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries to Jeffries face. But leader Jeffries was ready. Jeffries comes out of his office, gets into

Lawler's face and just utterly exposes Lawler and shows how weak and pathetic Lawler and these MAGA Republicans are. Lawler's like, can you sign this? And Jeffries is like, you are there just to support the billionaires. You're ripping away people's healthcare. People are going to die in your district. This was a powerful moment. I think this was Hakeem Jeffries moment. Watch for yourself. I'm going

to play you this shorter clip of what went down first. Let's play it. You can extend it right now. A permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire donors. So 90% of Americans. So they can get a permanent extension.

90% of Americans take the standard adoption.

Then the other altercation involved MAGA Mike Johnson trying to interrupt a press briefing that was being conducted by the Arizona senators, Senator Gallego and Senator Kelly, who were calling for Adelita Grijalva, the representative elect, the Congresswoman elect from Arizona's seventh congressional district to be sworn in. And then you'll see MAGA Mike just like shows up.

It's like, I'm here, everybody. I'm here. Maybe you just gotta open up the government. No, it's the Trump and Republican government shutdown and I loved how senator Gallego and senator Kelly also got in Maga Mike's face and said this is about your Cover-up of the Epstein files. This is strength. This is how it's done here play this clip

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So I am anxious to administer the authority as soon as you guys vote to open the government. You don't want to be on Epstein's district.

How much is it?

It's totally absurd.

You guys are experts at red herrings. It's a distraction.

You're moving along.

Oh, God.

It has nothing to do the Epstein files right now, releasing 34,000 pages and more on the way.

Let me finish the House Oversight Committee. This is an excuse, which he doesn't sign on.

Now, let me show you the longer interaction of what went down when you had Mike Lawler, the MAGA Republican Congress member from New York, try to approach leader Jeffries in this publicity stunt. Leader Jeffries walks out of the office drawing, gets right up in Lawler's face, looks at him and says, you realize how pathetic you are? How pathetic, you come in here and you're saying lies?

Watch this powerful moment right here.

Let's play this clip. It's said, you could easily sign on to this. You're embarrassing yourself right now. You're chasing a cloud.

You're an embarrassment.

You could sign on to the bill.

You have four Democrats on here.

Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a question.

It's a clean extension for one year.

You voted for the one big ugly vote, correct? history, by the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4,000 tax cut. Are you against that? You're embarrassing yourself right now. You want to cut the standard deduction?

The largest cut to Medicaid in American history. You voted for that.

Fraud and abuse. By the way, Tom DiNapoli, the Democratic controller of New York,

pointed out that $1.2 billion was wasted.

Listen, you're not going to talk to me and talk over me because you don't want to hear what I have to say. So why don't you just keep your mouth shut? Because you showed up, you showed up, you showed up, and so you voted for this one big

ugly bill.

I signed on to this.

You can extend it right now.

A permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire. Then Democrats went out and held, I thought, a great press conference in contrast to what Maga Mike and the Republicans today, their talking point is, do you all know that a young pregnant woman, they get to reimburse the hospitals less than, uh, these like migrants do less than I mean it's just such a bizarre press conference that Republicans had. This was the Democratic press conference though on point on the side of the American people watch what

goes down as Democratic leader Jeffrey says our position is clear the Affordable Care Act subsidies need to be extended permanently we should help all Americans have health care the way Donald Trump is helping subsidize the lifestyles of his rich and shameless friends. Here play this clip.

Our position that has been articulated in a bill that was introduced by Senator Patty Murray and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is a permanent extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits to match the permanent extension that Republicans on their own saw fit to do for the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected

as part of the Republican continuing effort to subsidize the lifestyles of the rich and shameless.

More from Hakeem Jeffries right here saying this is the second time. It's been shut down under Donald Trump He's nowhere to be found. He's out there golfing here play this clip

If we're going to get a resolution here we need presidential leadership, that's what Donald Trump himself said 12 years ago in 2013 If a shutdown happens the buck stops with the president. This is now the second time that the government has been shut down under Donald Trump, and he's in the Presidential Witness Protection Program. He's nowhere to be found.

He's got time to be on the golf course, but apparently he doesn't have time to sit down with Democrats in the House and the Senate to reopen the government.

Then we have Democratic Congressmember McGovern. Here's what he said. Let's play it.

I don't know if anyone else wanted to add. Yeah.

You know, Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people, people on SNAP, people on Medicaid. Well, I got an idea. Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to Congress and do your goddamn job. I mean, millions of people are about to lose their healthcare. This is a serious crisis we're in, and we can avoid it.

We can avoid people losing their healthcare, and we can keep the government open.

They need to show up. Back to Democratic leader Jeffries saying, you know, Republicans are obviously trying to cover up the Epstein files right now. They know that Adelita Grijalva, Congresswoman elect from Arizona's seventh congressional district would be the 218 signature on the discharge petition here. Play this clip. Will you call Speaker Johnson and implore him to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

We have made clear privately and publicly that Representative Adelita Grijalva should be sworn in immediately without delay. Mike Johnson swore in two Republican members of Congress immediately after their April First special elections were concluded during a pro-former session

When no one else was even around and that was done by Republicans because they wanted to jam their one big ugly bill down the throats of the American people so they could rip away health care, steal food from children, and enact massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors. Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of Congress to do in the American people in order to reward the wealthy,

the well-off, and well-connected. But now, at this moment, Representative Adelita Grijalva, who won by much wider margins than those two Republican members. There is no dispute or controversy relative to her election. And so many of us are asking the question, why the delay, Mike? What's the delay with respect to representative elect

Adelita Grijalva? Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Leader Jeffries, what do you make of Speaker Johnson canceling House sessions this week?

And when will you call for the, when will, when do you think he'll call for the house

to return? House Democrats were here last week. House Democrats are here this week. House Democrats will be here next week. House Republicans are on vacation right now. That's extraordinary. They canceled votes last week. House Republicans have canceled votes this week. We haven't been in session since September 19th. And on that day day Republicans got out of town before sundown never to be seen again as We

Approached the government shutdown and are now in day eight of the Trump Republican shutdown and these extremists Don't even want to show up to work When they're requiring hard-working federal employees to show up to work without pay because of the Republican shutdown. And so we've repeatedly made clear we will sit down as Democrats anytime, anyplace, anywhere with anyone

our Republican colleagues either here in the Congress or go back to the Oval Office to reopen the government, to enter into a spending agreement that actually makes life better for the American people and that addresses the Republican healthcare crisis.

Then you have Congress member Ted Lieu.

Here he goes. Having served an active duty in the US military, it is insane not to pay our troops. Some of them are in high risk missions and you want them thinking about whether they can get paid, whether they can care for their family. You don't want them focused on that.

You want them focused on our national security. And this is going to affect our national security. House Democrats are here, Republicans are on vacation. They need to pay our troops. Here we have Congressman Aguilar. Let's play it.

Take, for example, Iowa's first

congressional district represented by Congresswoman Marianne Miller Meeks.

This, by the way, is the same member who said she'll hold town halls when hell freezes over just this week. A 60 year old couple earning $82,000 a year

for their house. And they're going to be the first to pay their troops. is the same member who said she'll hold town halls when hell freezes over just this week. A 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 a year will see their annual premiums rise by 200 percent,

$13,000 a year. And here we have the Democratic whip, Congresswoman Clark. Let's play it.

And as I look in my district, as premium notices are coming out, a couple in Massachusetts that makes $88,000 a year is looking at having their premium doubled. If we go to speaker Johnson's hometown of Benton, Louisiana, that same couple making 88,000 will see a tripling of their premium.

Three times. That could be around $23,000 a year for that couple to pay. People can't afford that. 60% of families in this country cannot meet the basics, cannot afford the basics for their family. And these sort of dramatic jumps in premiums are what is going to pull them under. So here we are, and we implore the Republican Party, go talk to your neighbors

and hear their anxieties about what's happening to their healthcare, what's happening in your shutdown you're imposing on them, and get on a plane and come back to Washington and get to work in reopening this government and protecting healthcare and the American worker.

And what's MAGA Mike been doing? Oh, talking about how he doesn't like Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and how Lee Greenwood should be the halftime show. Oh, MAGA Mike, you definitely know what the American people are thinking about MAGA Mike. Here, play this clip.

Any reaction to Bad Bunny being chosen as the Super Bowl halftime?

I didn't even know who Bad Bunny was, but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view

from what I'm hearing.

How come?

What's that?

How come?

Well, it sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. And I think, you know, there's so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young, impressionable children. And I think in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models

doing that, not not somebody like this.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

And what are the American people thinking? Our friend Don Lemon interviewed Americans on the street to see how they feel about the shutdown.

Play this clip.

Who's more responsible for the government shutdown, Democrats or Republicans?

Republicans. Republicans. Republicans.

Republicans, definitely, yeah.

Republicans.

Why is that?

They have the power.

Republicans. Why so? They control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Who else would be responsible?

I would assume the Republicans.

Republicans.

I think it's the Republicans. One party is in control of all three branches of government. And I don't think that there's really any reasonable way to spin this as the Democrats fault.

I would say the pubs, Republicans are good for one thing themselves.

I mean, with everything that's going on and everything that Trump does, I think we can.

While the shutdown is taking place, folks, just know that $20 billion of your taxpayer money has now bailed out Donald Trump's MAGA puppet in Argentina, Javier Malo, and he held, he took that money and he threw a rock show to celebrate his new book called, it's a new book, Construction of the Miracle, taking our taxpayer money, pyrotechnics everywhere,

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