This Is the Most Obvious Corruption Ever (w/ Sen. Brian Schatz)
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:24.5 | Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who is here to talk about all the times he's been |
| 0:28.9 | bribed with a $400 million plane. And other bribes he may have been asked to, except |
| 0:35.7 | during his time in office. But in all seriousness, we're going to talk about the plane from Qatar. |
| 0:39.6 | And we're going to get into that and what Democrats may or may not be able to do about it. |
| 0:44.3 | All right. |
| 0:44.5 | So, Senator, obviously this is a big deal. |
| 0:48.0 | We have this proposed GIF, although I guess there are reports that the plane is already in Texas. |
| 0:54.0 | So I'm not sure what we know about the status of the plane. |
| 0:57.1 | Maybe you can eliminate that. |
| 0:58.2 | You have led a resolution to condemn it. |
| 1:01.1 | This is the most blatant, obvious, ridiculous, gross corruption that I've ever seen in my entire life. |
| 1:09.1 | You don't have to be, I'm not a lawyer. |
| 1:11.5 | You don't have to be all fancy pants to understand how ridiculous it is |
| 1:15.0 | that a foreign government is going to say, |
| 1:17.6 | hey, we'll take care of Air Force One for you. |
| 1:19.9 | Air Force One is a symbol of the United States |
| 1:22.7 | where Air Force One is one of the most recognizing symbols |
| 1:25.2 | of the office of the presidency and so on and so |
| 1:28.2 | for. Therefore, be it resolved that we shouldn't do this. That seems pretty straightforward. |
| 1:34.2 | But I just want to talk sort of about the larger picture here, which is it's fairly open corruption. |
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