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Channel GOP · Hearing · Thursday, November 12, 2026

Rep. Thomas Massie on Hegseth impeachment: "very effective at killing school children in Iran"

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At a press conference on his articles of impeachment against Secretary Hegseth, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie answers colleagues who call Hegseth good at his job. Massie says the articles don't accuse Hegseth of being ineffective. They charge that he broke laws and violated the Constitution.

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Rep. Thomas Massie
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briefing - Massie press conference on his articles of impeachment against Defens
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37 seconds, unedited within the cut
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lot of people are saying, well, I think Peter Hexeth's effective. He's good at his job. And so I don't want to vote for these articles of impeachment. Well, the reality is we're not indicting him for being bad at his job. In fact, he was very effective at killing school children in Iran. He was very effective at extrajudicial killings. There's no argument in these impeachment articles that he's ineffective. The argument here is that he's broken laws and he's violated the Constitution. And so that's the question put in front of my colleagues.

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