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[ laughing ] democrats are taking rude, crude, and shouty congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s calls for decorum in the house as seriously as the republicans seem to be taking the threat to our economy with their manufactured debt ceiling crisis. but i m guessing our veterans and social security recipients are not laughing. plus, the longest january 6th sentence so far as oath keepers leader stewart rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy. and later, ron desantis disastrous campaign rollout leads to speculation that pudding may have been clogging up the twitter tubes. yuck. but we begin with the republican lie that could plunge our nation off of an economic cliff. with just seven days until the united states could default on our debt, talks between republicans and white house representatives have yet to resolve the issue. but today, president biden made a very important point. it s time for congress to act now. i want to be clear. the negotiations we re ....
Parents without jobs. and now you re sending us home with no resolution. i m joined now by democratic california congressman ro khanna, member of the house committee on oversight and deputy whip of the progressive caucus and john solace, chairman and cofounder of votevets.org and a two-time iraq veteran. i m going to put this chart back up. medicare, $47 billion. veterans benefits $12 billion right before memorial day. have your colleagues explained what they intend to tell their constituents on why they get to go home and chill and their constituents including veterans on memorial day weekend won t get their checks next week? it s a sad situation. they don t care. they don t care about the harm they re doing, because this is a manufactured crisis, as you have said. they are holding the country hostage to enact radical ....
Senator warren and myself. do i think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that he had? no, i don t. maybe we re held to a different standard. now a veterans group is responding and defending buttigieg. votevets.org is a veterans political activist group and they tweeted this out in part. those who served in war have real world experience and perspective active relatively few others in america have. we see the tweet there. can you expand on that a little bit? she was making a point that she thinks clearly men and women are held to different standards, but then, of course, there is this element, especially on the eve of veterans day, there is a sense, i think, on the part of certainly you and your organization that military service here is being minimized. we re really plugged into the race. we work with all the campaigns. ....
So over the past month, this has been a trope that has sort of been bleeding out about pete buttigieg and his experience. the new york times ran a huge spread on it, epstein wrote about it on sunday s paper or saturday s paper that pete somehow doesn t have any experience. there is a lot to like and not like about pete buttigieg, but when you look at the top frontrunners, he has more experience on the ground in afghanistan than all combined. so in reality, pete does have experience and this is a trope on veterans. i can t tell you how many veterans there are in the united states that have returned from this war and just said, you re not qualified, or you don t have the experience for this job. that s the entire reason that votevet exists. being chief matters. experience in afghanistan matters. it s unfair, but it s not just ....