The Trump Team is Now Trying to Jail Members of Congress
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com. To learn more. Hey guys, it's me, Sam Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bullwork. I am joined by Adrian Keraskio. He's the author of Huddled Masses. It's a great newsletter. You should be subscribing to that. We are here tonight to talk about some breaking news. About an hour ago, news broke that Alina Haba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, was going to press forward with charges |
| 0:38.7 | against a sitting member of Congress, Representative Lomonika McIver, who was part of a trio of members |
| 0:45.5 | of Congress along with the Newark mayor, who went to a Newark detention facility, |
| 0:50.2 | ICE detention facility called Delaney Hall. |
| 0:52.3 | Basically, this is a big deal. |
| 0:54.3 | We're going to get into all that. |
| 0:56.1 | Adrian is going to help unpack what's going on here. |
| 0:58.4 | Before we do, as always, do subscribe to the feed. |
| 1:01.6 | I really appreciate it. |
| 1:02.5 | We really appreciate it. |
| 1:03.4 | It's helpful for us. |
| 1:04.8 | All right, Adrian, so basically the backstory is a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:08.0 | They go to this ice detention facility. |
| 1:13.7 | A scuffle ensues outside of the facility. And then there were some questions about whether charges were going to be brought |
| 1:18.0 | against the mayor, who's under different jurisdiction in law than the sitting members of Congress. |
| 1:23.3 | It turns out that how about announces tonight that she's going to not charge the Newark mayor, |
| 1:29.2 | but she is pressing forward with charges against the congresswoman. |
| 1:34.0 | She says in violation of Title 18, United States Code Section 111 for assaulting, |
| 1:40.3 | impeding and interfering with law enforcement. |
| 1:42.3 | Before we get into like the legality of this and the |
| 1:44.6 | politics of this, for people who maybe didn't notice what happened or just don't have a really |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bulwark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Bulwark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.