Congressman Jim Himes on Trump's Disaster Policies

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Politics, News

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s capitulation to Putin. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	I'm joined by Democratic Congress member Jim Hines, the ranking member of the House Intelligence
0:36.2	Committee, Congress member, given your position,
0:39.5	the sensitive intelligence you see as a ranking member of the Intelligence Committee,
0:44.2	I got to ask you your reaction to what we saw last week and, frankly, over the weekend with
0:51.2	President Trump and his administration's attacks on President Zelensky of Ukraine.
0:56.0	Yeah, well, we're in a mighty weird world, right? And I mean, you can just, you can just see it out there.
1:01.0	The Russians are thrilled. Dmitri Peskov, the spokesman for Putin, is saying it looks like the United States and Russia are aligned now on our goals.
1:09.0	Remember, this is the country that is responsible for 70,000 deaths in Ukraine that brutalized
1:14.2	a struggling democracy.
1:17.2	And, you know, we have always, certainly in my lifetime and well before, the United States
1:21.9	has always stood with the good guys, right?
1:25.1	You know, in 1941, in 1942 in World War II, we didn't say, oh, so many people
1:29.8	are dying in France and the UK and Germany and, you know, we should bring an end to this. We've
1:35.1	always stood with the good guy. And right now you've got Donald Trump and his administration
1:40.2	trying to convince the American people, despite the civilian bodies you saw, the raped women,
1:46.7	the children who were murdered in the town of Bucca, you've got the Trump administration trying
1:51.1	to convince the Americans that this is some irrelevant conflict where we're just trying to stop
1:56.2	the violence between two pesky combatants, right?
1:59.1	We, for the first time in our history, in a major conflict,
2:02.1	certainly in Europe, are trading our heritage of standing up for what is right and good and liberty
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