Trump’s Lies Blow Up in Shocking Declassified Report (w/ Rep. Jim Himes)
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:41.9 | the Intelligence Department had made that was undergirding, I guess. You can maybe explain |
| 0:46.3 | if I have this exactly right, the argument that they need to employ the Alien Enemones Act, |
| 0:50.0 | which was this notion that, you know, that we had this invading force that Venezuela and the Venezuela, |
| 0:56.0 | the Maduro government in Tren Daraagua were somehow working in concert. |
| 1:00.9 | And in order to combat that invading force, we have to, you know, enact this wartime power in order to deport these folks to El Salvador. |
| 1:09.8 | And as it turns out, you guys over on the committee, |
| 1:13.0 | we're asking for the classified, I guess, internal documents and briefing on this. |
| 1:18.4 | And it showed that, you know, actually, that's not exactly the case. |
| 1:22.1 | So that's my Reader's Digest summary. |
| 1:24.3 | You give us a little more detail. |
| 1:25.4 | Not just not exactly the case, right? |
| 1:27.9 | What the president, the administration, and the director of national intelligence were saying, |
| 1:32.9 | which is that Trend de Aragua is operating as a proxy of the Venezuelan government, |
| 1:37.6 | is the exact opposite of what the intelligence community, which purportedly the director |
| 1:43.0 | of national intelligence runs, was actually |
| 1:45.0 | saying, right? And, and, you know, it's deadly serious stuff, Tim, right? Because, you know, |
| 1:50.1 | we're a country that takes liberty and freedom seriously. And at the core of that is that the |
| 1:54.4 | government doesn't get to take your stuff or take you or, you know, whatever without due process. |
| 2:00.1 | And that's, that's true of everybody in our country. |
| 2:02.2 | And there are these very, very narrow exceptions, |
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