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Impeachment a 'complete waste of time' a week before Biden takes office: Rep. Van Duyne

2021-01-13 | 🔗
Texas Republican freshman Rep. Beth Van Duyne argues impeachment only further divides the country and distracts from Congress enacting policies to help the American people.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Call or go online now Ainsley at least five house Ainsley, at least five house republicans say they will vote to impeach Donald Trump, but freshman congresswoman, Beth Van Dyck of the Democrats rush to remove the President quote political theater and she joins us now a tough week, especially if you are a Republican. Why are they not supporting him? We have a lot of discussions and thoughtful debate and each individual is voting their conscience and in the best interests they believe for the country. I think right now. Impeachment is a waste of time. I think about all the hours, millions of dollars we wasted the last four years, impeaching, the president and next week we
the president and next week we are entering a new phase: new Administration, North Texas. We have small businesses going out of business, restaurants, closing that have been open for decades. The aviation industry is floundering families not able to put food on their table and pay for insurance, and we are talking about impeachment of a president who is going to be gone in seven days. This is doing nothing to empower families and everything to divide the country and this to divide the country and this Congress. Ainsley political theater explain that it is not doing anything proactive. It is not doing anything that helps working families at a time when we needed, we are continuing to go back. We are continuing to go back for these 30 second soundbites, that make headline news, but nothing to help policy not doing anything to help people.
We are in a horrific time in our countrys history. I was at the capital last week on my third day, I was watching on my third day. I was watching those events unfold on Fox, like millions of people across the country. Leaders of this country need to band together and defend our democracy and defend our country, and we need to speak as one and instead we are for a having a victory lap taking a final pound of flesh final pound of flesh. It is doing nothing to help people and everything to so more division in our country and, quite honestly, the american people deserve better Ainsley. What about when it comes to the Republican Party, whether or not you support what Ms Cheney is doing or the president and say it is political theater, you are still political theater. You are still conservative. The party is still conservative and those folks who vote read and love. Conservative values want that for their future and the children and grandchildren. So what is the future of the republican Party? We are going to agree to
disagree on some things. I dont know that we will agree. I dont know that we will agree on everything and that is okay. Having that discussion, why we feel the way we do is what democracy is all about to have. This kind of debate for the folks on the left were criticizing the rights response. Where were you the past summer, when leaders rioters were allowing people to die on the street and not allow police officers, have access to them or buildings were being shut down? Businesses were being broken into in August in our capital, when officials were being assaulted, capital police being spit on and pushed. Where were your statements? I never saw them all of us. Are trying to really is what this means for the future instead of having more acts the
me nothing waste time, waste money need to band together and do the hard work people were asking. Where was twitter when Nancy Pelosi, the Russia Investigation, saying Donald Trump hijacked the election? Where was twitter, then great question I had than opponent during my campaign said: who cares about rioters, alluding? Let them burn it down to the ground. Where was twitter? There was not even a comment from her opponents. On the democrat side, I never heard from leadership. I never heard from leadership burn it down to the grounds.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-13.