Do those kind of candidates make your job harder and your goal of electing more moderates to Congress harder?

No, the Democratic Party is a big tent party.

But the truth is the majority, winning the majority, which is what our goal needs to be, we are going to win the majority because of the moderate candidates winning in the toughest seats, Republican majority seats, seats that Trump won, candidates that are with military service backgrounds, doctors, Teachers, people with incredible professional, successful backgrounds who have come forward to be a patriot and fight to restore checks and balances in the United States of America.

Those candidates who tend to be more moderate and will be part of our coalition, they're the ones that are going to deliver the majority for the American people.

A lot of what you're talking about has to do with Democratic primaries earlier on the primary season where DSA candidates were able to win in heavily blue areas, overwhelmingly Democratic districts.

And so, you know, that's interesting to talk about and think about, but it doesn't help the majority because those seats go from a Democratic candidate to another Democratic candidate.

What we're talking about is the ability to beat Republicans in Republican majority seats.

What, if anything, can Congress do about this if President Trump decides that he no longer is willing to support Ukraine to the same extent that the U.S. has been thus far?

Is this something that you think would qualify for impeachment if he's actually broken the law, or is that off the table?

Look, the president puts out on social media many, many things that are just blatantly untrue.

You've covered many of those things that he's put on social media.

Apparently, his statement that he had negotiated some sort of ceasefire, energy ceasefire, was news to both the Russian side, who said they had no idea about it, and clearly it was news to the Ukrainian side because President Zelensky said he knew absolutely nothing about it.

And of course, we know it was a false tweet because later that day, Russia continue to bombard the energy infrastructure in Ukraine, so I don't think we should give the president and his tweeting any merit when it with regard to this on the on the issue of.

getting rid of the sanctions on Russian diesel and bringing that diesel to the United States, allegedly to lower prices.

First off, talk to any person in economics about whether that would actually lower diesel prices.

What do you think? Should the US join in?

Congressman, how do you think the justices will rule on this given that the election is fewer than two months away.

Well, it should be a fairly easy case because the United States Constitution is clear.

The president has no role in elections in the United States of America.

It is states and localities that run elections and have done so throughout the entirety of our country.

So it is illegal and unconstitutional what Trump is trying to do to kind of take over elections by running mail-in voting.

So

If the US Supreme Court does let this rule go through, what kind of impact would that have on Arizona?

Well, it would have a massive impact.

But what are the ethics and security concerns of her hands-on role in her husband's Pentagon? Well,

there's no indication that she has highly classified access to information, which is so problematic that she was involved in member signal gate, uh, near the beginning of the administration where, uh, Pete Hexus was providing classified information to people that had no business having an, including a reporter who was on the signal, uh, chat with them.

Uh, if she's in meetings in which classified information is being discussed, uh, That's inappropriate and illegal and potentially dangerous.

Only people that have the right classified briefing should be in meetings of that sort.

The New York Times article provided information that other countries were trying to not be fully.

fully forthcoming with information because they felt uncomfortable with someone that didn't have the right classified classification inside inside the meeting.

So look, I mean, you know, if the secretary of defense wants to have his wife involved in his media strategy or that she's a very successful professional in the media world, she was a Fox News producer for a long period of time.

I mean, what are some of the competitive races you expect Democrats to win?

Why do you think that split's happening?

I think we just need to study history more.

I mean, the Democratic Party has always had a [laughs] very big tent.

Uh, and we've had, uh, intramural fights, if you will, throughout our time.

And so I don't view this as anything more than what has often gone on inside the Democratic Party.

By the way, I'd rather be in a party in which we have these fights than what I see on the other side, which is, uh, uh, uh, Republicans in Congress just rolling over for the president.

It's more like a cult of personality than a party.

W- we have to take a, a lesson from that playbook"?

Could they have done this without these very many FEMA employees?

I think they could have done it, but they wouldn't have done it nearly as well, quote unquote, as they as they did.

But, you know, you know, I talked offline that there is a law specifically banning this from happening.

It's called the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Act.

Because after Katrina, we learned that when employees aren't ready to go at a moment's notice, that delays response and that can cost lives.

The law specifically says that these key FEMA employees are there in case of emergency of natural disaster.

They are not to be moved for other purposes, despite how well trained they are.

Do you think it also needs to be bulked up in light of – I mean we're seeing many more natural disasters now in light of climate change.

The, quote, "Would be aimed at trying to get the Iranians to agree to the United States' terms in ongoing ceasefire negotiations." And I know that there have been many threats over the months by the president to increase the offensive attacks, including on energy facilities, but what is the administration communicating to you guys at this point on your committee?

Oh, nothing.

This president has not communicated to Congress at all about his plans or strategies for the Iran war of choice that he started, that he got this country into.

Uh, Congress has never approved this war, which is required under the United States, uh, Constitution.

And that, uh, video you just showed of him at Camp David just sort of shrugging his shoulders and saying, "We're gonna significantly increase this tax, uh, attacks, and it's gonna go back and forth," this is echoes of the Vietnam War, where I, I guess, uh, the, the death numbers is going to be how we're judging success.

Um, right now, this president doesn't know what he's doing.

He's all over the place in terms of claiming that this war is almost over in terms of a negotiated solution.

Congressman, when you're talking to not just your Democratic colleagues, but I would r- reckon that you're also talking with your Republican colleagues about this, what could a credible end to this war at this point look like? And is there a role that Congress can play beyond the War Powers resolutions that you guys have passed now twice at this point to help get to that point of an end of the war?

What is the administration's next move here? And do you worry we could be entering some sort of a period of neither war nor peace and just constant back and forth hostilities and, I guess, attempts at negotiations in between?

Well, it's critical that the Strait of Hormuz be open under any circumstances.

Of course, the Strait was open before Donald Trump entered into this war of choice, which was a horrific, horrific decision.

Number one, the president never should have left the Iran nuclear deal during his first term.

We would have been in so much of a better position if we just stayed in that important agreement because of the accountability measures in there.

He gets us out of that.

He comes back for another term, and then he enters this war of choice, and Iran discovers that that they can fairly easily shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

But what's going on here?

So What's your take in terms of the MOU and JD as the sort of front man here? You're

asking me about the MOU.

What's the MOU? It's kind of a high-level concept document.

There's no details.

We don't really know what it means.

apparently have allowed the sanctions relief on the front end, but any agreement as to elimination of the nuclear program is all on the back end.

So the MOU in and of itself provides not much clarity.

What should people know and what should Congress be

Y- your, your reaction.

Look, the decision of the president to engage in war with Iran is one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.

Other than the Iraq War, probably the worst foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War.

We never knew what, what the objective was.

We never knew what the strategy was.

For 15 weeks this has been going on.

He's never come to Congress and, and therefore, the American public, and explained what they're trying to accomplish, and this MOU, um, is i- indication of that.

Is there any mechanism that is currently being discussed by Republican, by some of your Republican colleagues that you think might be sort of similar, um, or analogous to the, the 2015 process that could actually enable you all to have a real impact on the end deal that is negotiated?

Yeah, I mean, you serve on behalf o- of, of the innovative state of Arizona, which is home to TSMC, so how to think about bringing chip making back to the US and what it means for supply chain resilience, especially given the fact that Taiwan is in focus right now?

Well, y- that's exactly right.

Uh, TSMC, the Taiwanese Semiconductor Company, has invested, uh, over $200 billion building semiconductor fabs in Phoenix, Arizona, my community.

So for me as a former mayor of Phoenix, international policy and local economic development go hand-in-hand.

And this is why the, the biggest news coming out of the Trump-Xi Jinping summit is the fact that President Trump w- has not moved forward with the arms sales to Taiwan.

We wanna be able to ensure that Taiwan can defend itself in case Xi Jinping and the Chi- the Chinese Communist Party make any kind of move on Taiwan.

That would be devastating for this world if he were to do so.

How does this play out?

Are, w- which one has people most vexed in Arizona?

Arizona?Well, in the, right now, of course, it's the Iran war.

People who were sold a bill of goods by this president claiming to be the president of peace now finds us in a significant chance of a forever war and the, they know the insanity of his policy.

Iran did exactly what experts said they would do, close down the Strait of Hormuz, massively raising gas prices.

So what does this president do? He releases sanctions on Iran and Russian oil, thereby helping Putin in the war with Ukraine, and of course, helping Iran in their funding of, ah, actors in the arena in the, in the Middle East that are doing terrible things in that, ah, region.

Ah, people know that his policies are backwards and raising prices on the American people, and that's why his numbers are g- are doing so poorly.

He deserves the negative approval ratings that he has because of his horrific policies, and Republicans in Congress are also gonna pay the price because the American people they know that they are doing nothing to reign in this president.

Can Democrats flip both of those seats?

It's an unlawful breach of our Constitution and the democratic process." Congressman Stanton, are you worried that this move by Johnson will become the new playbook for Republicans to simply ignore elections they don't like?

like?Yes, I am.

You could imagine if Mike Johnson actually has the power that he now seems to have claimed that he has, which is to decide when a member of Congress, a duly elected member of Congress, won in this case, who won overwhelmingly, over 70% of the vote, he gets to decide under the circumstances that they get sworn in.

Imagine taking it to its logical conclusion how far that could go.

He gets to decide which members get sworn in, when.

He could use it to manipulate legislation.

Four weeks, four weeks today, she was elected overwhelmingly by the people in Arizona District 7 in Pima County.

What are, um, Congresswoman-elect Grijalva's constituents not getting because Speaker Johnson has left them without a representative?

Did they deserve that?

Well, look, when you have an employer, you are a responsibility to act in a responsible way online.

So whether or not someone should be fired for a particular, I'd have to look at any particular posting that they make.

But if a member of my staff put inappropriate things, almost celebrating the death of a person like Charlie Kirk, I would certainly take action against that person, a punishment of some sort.

So I think people have a responsibility to act a responsible way.

Look, it's protected by the First Amendment, so you shouldn't take any government action against them.

But someone dealing with an employment setting, breaking the standards of what their employer puts forward about responsible use of the internet.

DO YOU SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING YOU CANNOT TEASE APART THIS CONVERSATION FROM THE LEGACY OF THE PERSON THEMSELVES AND THEIR WORDS, AND THEREFORE THIS DIALOGUE NEEDS TO HAPPEN?

Congressman, what were the m- major... i- Was there a single major issue at this town hall that was of concern for these voters?

Well, first off, it was a huge crowd.

It sold out in no time at all.

There was a...

They had to turn away a lot of people to participate.

The single theme was, people in Arizona and across the country are really angry.

They're angry at the chaos, chaos in healthcare, for example, with the proposed, uh, dismantling of our Medicaid system, which would affect tens of millions of Americans.

It might be in a lab, uh, in Arizona somewhere, uh, that does have some government funding to it, where the, the cure th- to things that are plaguing some of the, uh, senior citizens of Arizona is waiting to happen.