Rep. Robert Garcia, speaking with Alicia Menendez on MS NOW, says the president's family is profiting off the presidency while Americans struggle. He says the president is threatening him and other members of Congress by suggesting their constitutional oversight work is criminal activity. "We're not bending the knee to anyone."
The receipt
- Who
- Rep. Robert Garcia
- Where
- interview - MS NOW with Alicia Menendez
- Original footage
- MS NOW · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 44 seconds, unedited within the cut
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- 258 on Instagram
Read the transcript
When you have a family that is profiting off the presidency, that are building their dollars richer, while the American public is struggling, that is a real issue that people care about and they want us to take on. And the fact that now the president is threatening me, threatening oversight, other members of Congress, saying that somehow he's going to take us on or that we are engaging criminal activity by conducting our jobs, which are in the Constitution, is again just someone that is believed in an authoritarian state that we all should bend the knee to Donald Trump. We're not bending the knee to anyone. We're gonna stand up, do our jobs, and take on corruption, especially when we find it in the administration.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.