At a town hall on Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was asked about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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00:00Senator Grassley, on that same subject, the Constitution, the framers of the Constitution
00:05said that every person, not citizen, every person within the jurisdiction of the United States
00:13has due process.
00:20We would like to know what you, as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to reign in this dictator,
00:26what are you going to do about it? These people have been sentenced to life imprisonment
00:31in a foreign country, with no due process.
00:34Our government cannot do anything.
00:41Why won't you do your job, Senator?
00:45Get a smothering!
00:48Trump's not obeying the Supreme Court. He just ignores them.
00:51Yeah, screw it!
00:53He's doing everything.
00:54I'm going to be okay with that.
00:56What is a constitutional crisis? What does that consist of?
01:04A constitutional crisis exists when you have a president who ignores the Supreme Court.
01:15You have a Congress who fails to reign in a third branch of our government.
01:23That's right.
01:24It is now violating our Constitution.
01:27You took an oath.
01:29I do solemnly swear or affirm.
01:31Do you remember that, sir?
01:32Yes, sir.
01:33That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
01:41That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of office of which I am about to enter.
01:53Sir, will you act upon your oath?
01:57Yeah, I thought that I was...
02:00I'll wait until the clapping's done.
02:04I thought when I answered this guy's question, I was doing what the Constitution requires.
02:09I'm trying to recapture the constitutional authority of Article I, Section 8, one of the 18 powers of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce by introducing the bill, which is a bipartisan bill,
02:26to make some of the mistakes that Democratic Congress has made in 1963.
02:34Congress as a whole...
02:41That's what I'm doing.
02:42Congress as a whole...
02:43Yeah.
02:44...bipartisan has the power to act...
02:47Can you wait until the age...
02:50Congress as a whole, bipartisan, has the power to act to bring the executive branch to heal.
03:00Yes, yes, yes.
03:02And they're not doing it.
03:03Introducing a bill.
03:05Yes, that's one thing.
03:06But as a whole, the power of Congress to bring that executive branch to heal when they are behaving the way we're seeing,
03:17that power exists within you and your other members of Congress.
03:22Do you speak to your other persons in the House of Representatives of your party?
03:29Do you communicate with them often?
03:31Do you discuss any of this with them?
03:35Do you hold any concern that Congress will be the next branch that Trump comes for because he is coming for the judiciary?
03:43Oh, yeah.
03:43Oh, yeah.
03:45The only tool that you know the Constitution gives Congress to do in regard to disciplining the executive branch is impeachment.
03:57And you missed that opportunity in his first administration.
04:01You had two opportunities for that.
04:03That was probably one of the only reasons we're having this situation now.
04:09He ignores the next election.
04:16The House initiates impeachment.
04:20Would you remember what I started with?
04:25I said that the way I conducted the meeting in Hampton, I was chastised before because I didn't allow anything other than people to complain about Trump.
04:40So I'm going to go through this list and then we'll go back.
04:42Let's get through this.
04:53All right.