Name: "Donald, Piss Off. And Release The Epstein Files." - Sen. Adam Schiff
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Senator, you know who this is, everybody.

Okay, we're six months into Trump's second term.

Fundamentally, it's different because Donald Trump was much less successful in the first term in creating a climate of fear.

He wants to make news organizations, CBS and Paramount, afraid.

And more than anything else, he wants to make Republicans in Congress afraid because he wants them to do his will.

He wants the judges to be afraid, afraid they'll get impeached if they cross him, afraid for their own personal safety if they cross him.

And he has done so in six months, which is radically different than the first term.

In part, it's different because in the first term, there were at least some people to stand up to him, the Secretary Mattis's, the John Kelly's and others that had some stature who were willing to say, Mr. President, that's a stupid ass idea.

Or I'm not gonna go along with that idea.

And- And so they didn't have a plan in place.

So last night, the Senate passed something called a rescission bill.

It sounds like a court-ordered appendectomy.

Can you explain, what is a rescission bill?

Yeah, well, first there's the big ugly bill, which was another term that probably many people hadn't heard of called reconciliation, where they massively cut healthcare and they cut food for hungry kids to fund a tax cut for rich people, but not content with that and the harms that's gonna cause, they decided they want a lot of little ugly bills.

And this rescission bill is a little ugly bill.

It, like the reconciliation bill, only requires 50 votes and the VP, and they can cut further.

So in this bill that we voted on up till about three in the morning last night, they cut funding for AIDS and tuberculosis and malaria and public broadcasting and NPR.

And was this money that had already been allocated?

It's money that had already been allocated.

How can, why would Congress take back what they had already passed?

Why are they doing it, especially for things like that?

Because Donald Trump has made the Republicans afraid.

But people get into office, I mean, I don't know what your motivations, I'm sure they're very pure, but some people just like the allure of power.

And it seems like Congress is giving its power away to Donald Trump, that they're reducing their co-equal status.

Congress is absolutely giving its power away.

And in this case, really the most important power we have, which is the power of the purse.

I mean, at the end of the day, what power does Congress have to stop a rogue executive, but to defund them?

We have the power if we use it to say, hey, Donald Trump, we're not gonna let you lay off all these people because we're not gonna fund all these things you wanna do.

We're not gonna let you, you know, just grab people off the street using agents and masks, demanding people's papers, citizens and non-citizens alike.

But if we don't use that power, the president can run rogue.

Why would Republicans in particular give up that power?

Because they're worried about losing their own personal power, that is, their own personal office.

Some of them have said that they're worried for their personal safety.

You can't find a member of the House or Senate that hasn't gotten death threats.

You probably can't find many that haven't gotten death threats against their spouses, against their children.

Well, I would say, I was in Congress for, what, I don't know, 20 years before Trump came along or thereabouts.

If I got threatened two or three times in 20 years, that was a lot.

If I got threatened two or three times in a week during first Trump, it wasn't very much.

So under Trump, that has just accelerated.

And of course, now it's not just Democrats getting threatened, it's Republicans getting threatened.

And I have to imagine that there are a bunch of Republicans right now getting threatened over the whole Jeffrey Epstein stuff.

So once you unleash this idea that it's okay to use political violence and threats of violence, it doesn't end up discriminating just against one party.

Judges are getting threatened, city councilmen are getting threatened, election workers are getting threatened.

And so this is all part of this quite deliberate campaign to frighten people into submission.

And the only way to push back on that is to say, piss off, piss off.

The president, as you know, has been going after me within the last couple of days.

Ever since I led his first impeachment, he's threatened me with jail and prosecution and called me a traitor, accused me of treason, blah, blah,  He coerced Republicans into centering me in the House and now the latest attack on me.

So I just want to direct this, if this is the right camera or maybe that's the right camera.

Oh, oh, but, I, I, but Donald, before you piss off, would you release the Epstein files?

Senator, thank you so much for being here.

We'll be right back with one of the stars of Superman, Anthony Kerrigan.