GOP Leaders Crumble Under Killer Cross Exam at Hearing

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the brutal cross-exam by Texas State Representative James Talarico who made the MAGA State Representatives look like total fools on live tv. Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/meidas 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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0:29.7	You know as a former litigator, I love a good cross-exam. I love when a Democratic House
0:37.0	member or Senate member looks at the MAGA Republican
0:40.7	Congress member, House member, or Senate member, and just destroys their idiocracy live in front of
0:48.0	the world, on camera, and just exposes it, exposes the scam, the stunt, the grift.
0:56.6	No one does it better than Texas state representative James Tolarico and whether he's
1:04.2	exposing the Republican maga scam about putting the 10 commandments throughout schools or exposing the voucher system, the scam.
1:16.4	Watch James Tolariko cook.
1:19.4	So here's Democratic Congress member James Tolariko going to work this past week in the Texas House.
1:26.6	Watch how it's done when he goes after their book,
1:29.9	the MAGA book burning plan. Let's play this clip. If we pass your bill, could Romeo and Juliet
1:35.0	be banned because it mentions premarital sex, which someone might find, quote, against their
1:40.5	local community values? There may be some. There may be some that, whether their own individual value system or their religious beliefs
1:48.0	that could believe that.
1:49.0	If your answer to, could Romeo and Juliet be banned, if your answer is anything other
1:55.0	than, of course not, then that's a serious problem.
1:58.0	I'm not advised on Roma and Juliet.
2:00.0	Do you think prostitution is profane and inconsistent
2:02.7	with community values? I think that prostitution could be related in the context of our, of whatever the
2:13.5	work is before us in terms of a work of literature or content.
2:17.9	Under the language of your bill, profane and inconsistent with community values,
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