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🚨Congress SPILLS THE BEANS to Meidas ON CAPITOL HILL

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "🚨Congress SPILLS THE BEANS to Meidas ON CAPITOL HILL", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 7, 2026 (16 min, about 2,988 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including Pablo Monriquez, Congressman Thomas Massie, Lindsey Graham, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congress member Walenshaw.

What this episode is about

Congress members from both parties are responding to the establishment of a new DC bureau by the Mightiest Touch network, with reactions captured by reporter Pablo Monriquez on Capitol Hill. Key highlights include Republican Congressman Thomas Massie's criticism of the delays in releasing Epstein files and concerns over excessive redactions, while Congressman Jamie Raskin suggests that U.S. actions toward Venezuela may serve to distract from the scrutiny surrounding these files.

Key takeaways

  • Congressman Massie argues DOJ's Epstein document delays are a bureaucratic farce—private firms would have wrapped this up weeks ago.
  • Rascin suggests Venezuela tensions are a cover-up for Epstein files—who knew foreign policy had such a dramatic plot twist?
  • Crockett critiques the White House's 'rewritten history' narrative, reminding us that truth is the first casualty in political warfare.
  • Ted Lou calls the White House's blame on police for Jan 6 'batshit crazy'—not exactly a diplomatic choice of words!
  • Congressman Costa, a Jan 6 eyewitness, critiques Trump's myth-making—because rewriting history is easier than facing the facts.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Congressman Thomas Massie, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Pablo Monriquez
  2. – 6:00: Congressman Thomas Massie, Pablo Monriquez
  3. – 9:00: Congress member Walenshaw, Pablo Monriquez
  4. – 12:00: Braden Schneider, Elsa Timotea Aguilar, Lindsey Graham, Pablo Monriquez
  5. – 15:00: Lindsey Graham

Notable quotes from "🚨Congress SPILLS THE BEANS to Meidas ON CAPITOL HILL"

  • Who has now opened up a DC bureau in Washington DC. We have our reporter Pablo Monriquez on Capitol Hill and he is asking the members questions and we are getting breaking news…
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  • Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Happy New Year. Then we heard from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's play this clip.
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  • Let's hear from Democratic Congress member from Virginia Walenshaw. Play this clip.
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  • Congressman Schneider, let's play it.
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  • Sound bites, great interview he did with Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky. Here's what Rand Paul said about Lindsey Graham. This has since been major news right now. Play this clip.
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

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Full transcript with timestamps

Congress members from both parties are reacting to the mightest touch network who has now opened up a DC bureau in Washington DC. We have our reporter Pablo Monriquez on Capitol Hill and he is asking the members questions and we are getting breaking news as these questions are going and the answers are going viral. Let me show you what went down. We spoke with Republican Congress member Thomas Massie who was one of the sponsors of the discharge petition. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.

The fact that these Epstein files still there millions of more documents that they're still reviewing at this point. You know, if this were a private law firm with 5% of the resources of the DOJ, this would have been done by a deadline. And they just missed another deadline, which is the report to Congress, which is supposed to list all the politicians that are in their files. And also, they're supposed to justify all the redactions 15 days after the first 30-day window. But the the the biggest problem isn't that they're me missing the deadlines, it's what they're redacting. So, they're citing the Privacy Act and they're trying to pretend like that overrides a law that we just passed that says you can't withhold records to prevent embarrassment. They're also citing FOYA standards, which don't apply to our law when they're trying to say that they don't have to release internal decisions, but our bill specifically

says release internal decisions. So, what are you going to do about it? We're looking at that.

And then we spoke with Jamie Rasin. Here's what Congress member Rascin had to say. Let's play it.

Do you think that the on Venezuela, do you think that the uh the attack on Venezuela and the capture of Maduro is just a means to distract from the abst, but I think that is certainly part of it. The timing of it is explained by uh an effort to distract people from abstin files.

Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Happy is desperate not to see the absent file go public and they're in a full-blown cover.

Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Happy New Year. Then we heard from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's play this clip.

Any reaction to the White House blaming the police for the violence that happened here on January 6th?

I mean, my reaction is the same. They live and they always want to write their own narrative. So many times they're actually rewriting history. You know, it is a disgrace to see what this administration has done um as it relates to just even the official White House page, right? they rewrote history on that page um and trying to pretend as if the victims were those that were incarcerated um on that day. So listen, all I've got to say is that the American people are smart. We're seeing that they are paying attention. We're seeing that they're fed up. Whether you talk about no kings or whether you talk about the election results that we have seen across this country, we know that in this moment the American people are not satisfied. Not only are the polls showing that, but we're showing up and showing them that.

And so, I just want people to keep having faith. Have faith in the institutions. Have faith that we can go ahead and shore them up because right now it feels like things are crumbling around us. But at the end of the day, we the people make up these institutions. And so, if we lose faith, then we will lose everything. So on this day, as we remember how bad of a day it was in our nation, as we look at those images, also recommmit yourself to making sure that we never see another day like that and we never see another leader that would instigate this type of travesty on our country.

Okay, thank you. Back to Thomas Massie. Let's play this clip. So typically like with contempt, you might refer that to the DOJ and then the DOJ never prosecutes itself and then the problem goes away at the end of the Congress because it's contempt because they're not in compliance with the congressional subpoena which expires at the end of Congress. This law does not expire at the end of Congress. And so they've got a real problem. the contempt that the Congress refers, it could they could be in jeopardy of that even after this Congress expires.

Now, this clip that's since gone viral, Pablo Monriquez speaks with Ted Lou, Congress member from uh Democratic Congress member. Play this clip.

Question. What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened here on January 6 for the violence in the capital building? The

White House is statement is batshit crazy. That's what I have to say. And just I guess

they should not be blaming law enforcement when it was the police officers that valiantly protected the capital and protected the people in the capital from being harmed.

And what does it say about the phoniness of the Republican claim to be backing the blue?

It's completely phony when you're attacking police officers and saying that they're somehow escalating the attack on the capital whereas the other way around. They were protecting the people in the capital.

Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Sure. Next up, we have Congress member Costa play this clip. Congressman, what do you make of the White House blaming the police for the violence that happened here on January 6th?

That's outrageous. I was here on January 6th. Uh, it was the saddest day of 20 years that I've served in our nation's capital as member of the House of Representatives. We had a violent mob that was sent here on behast of President Trump to overturn a fair and free election and notwithstanding the fact that he continues to lie and distort the facts about what really happened on that date. uh and then uh to add insult to injury to pardon some 1,400 participants that were convicted of attempting to overturn that fair and free election. And once again, we see uh the president trying to rewrite history, but he can't because the facts are the facts.

Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Appreciate it. Back to Jamie Rascin. What do you make of the White House blaming the Capitol Police for the violence that happened here on January 6th? Um,

typical Donald Trump. Uh, but why doesn't he come down and testify under oath or even just testify in Congress? We won't make him go under oath. I know that's what all his lawyers are afraid of. They don't these purgatory charges. Why didn't he come down and tell us about his experience on January 6th when he sat there for 187 minutes and didn't send out the National Guard and didn't respond? And why doesn't he come and have an encounter with some of the police officers and he can hear from them directly? How about that? Then Pablo Monriquez even caught up with Lauren Boowbert and asked her if Donald Trump killing her legislation to bring clean water to Colorado was retaliation for her signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files. Play this clip.

Congresswoman, do you think that your that Trump's veto of your rural water legislation was retaliatory for your supporting the release of the Epstein files?

I mean, I think President Trump is pretty upset at the leadership uh the Democrat leadership in Colorado. I I don't know if it was retaliatory or if someone just uh didn't explain the numbers to them correctly, but this isn't something that is going to cost taxpayers um the amount of money that was stated and uh there's already been hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this. This is a federal water project uh that was promised 60 years ago and uh this is something that southeast Coloradoatans deserve. Um all it is is extending the repayment period and waiting the interest uh caused by Biden inflation uh under the last administration. So uh we we have a vote this week. Um you know it's it's automatic and uh hopefully we have votes to do that and if not we can find other ways to kind of work around this.

And what would your message be to your colleagues about overriding this veto? Um that that it isn't something that is going to cost taxpayers a lot of money. This is something that was promised to Coloradoatans 60 years ago under President Kennedy and it's the federal government that has been getting in the way. But this is has been supported um in a bipartisan biccameal manner for 60 years. Um, this all we're doing is extending the repayment uh period for water users, 50,000 water you users in rural Colorado and uh and then waving those interest fees um caused by a skyrocketing inflation under the Biden administration.

Got it. Thank you so much. Let's hear from Democratic Congress member from Virginia Walenshaw. Play this clip.

So, Congressman, any reaction to the White House blaming the police for the violence that happened up here on January 6th?

I think it's absolutely outrageous. I mean, as uh Chuck Schumer just said, it shows what a lowife Donald Trump is. To blame the incredibly brave uh police officers who put their lives on the line to defend our democracy on January 6 is absolutely outrageous. We had some of the family members of police officers who lost their lives as a result of January 6. And I'd love to see Donald Trump tell them to their face that January 6 was our police officer's fault rather than his own fault. He's the one who incited the violent mob of insurrectionists who attacked the capital on January 6. Our police officers, some of them, gave up their lives to defend this capital.

Thank you so much, Congressman. I appreciate it. Here's what Congresswoman Sykes had to say. Let's play it.

Congresswoman, what do you make of the White House blaming the police for the violence that happened here on January 6th?

Well, we've seen President Trump and his administration continue to downplay how uh dangerous and scary January 6th uh actually was. And it's really not shocking, but it is still disappointing because the brave men and women of the Capitol Police and the Metro Police stood up for our democracy, stood up for this country, and they should be heralded as heroes, which they are, and not blamed for a violent mob that wanted to overturn the government and throw an election.

Thank you so much, Congressman. I appreciate it. Congressman Schneider, let's play it.

Congressman, what do you make of the White House blaming the Capitol Police for the violence that happened here on January 6th? It's a continuation of President Trump trying to erase history. I was in the gallery on January 6. I've been working to protect democracy ever since. This administration's trying to do the exact opposite.

Here's what Nancy Pelosi told Pablo Monriquez. Let's play it. Madam Speaker, what do you make of the White House blaming the police for the violence that happened here on January 6th? They did that earlier today. So just another part of their misrepresentation. They have an aversion to fact and that's one terrible thing. But to spread their lies is really irresponsible.

Here's what Congress member Aguilar had to say. Let's play it. So what's your reaction to the White House blaming the police for the violence that was that happened here on January 6th?

This is just another effort by Donald Trump's White House um to whitewash what actually happened on January 6th. uh they released this website, you know, while uh former police officers were testifying to House Democrats on what they saw and and who was to blame. So, it's just, you know, it's another step in the effort uh of Donald Trump to rewrite history with his friends uh here on the House Republican side and their uh you know, fake select committee that they put together.

And then Pablo got some great uh great sound bites, great interview he did with Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky. Here's what Rand Paul said about Lindsey Graham. This has since been major news right now. Play this clip.

I'm wondering how worried you are about Lindsey Graham talking about talking about Cuba.

There should be a law that Lindsey Graham can only go to the White House every other week and that he's only to meet with under, you know, mid-level people, not the president. And no more golf outings. If I can pass a law saying no more golf outings. He was on the airplane with him and uh and and and he's pushing Cuba. He's saying Cuba's days are over.

It's always been an anomaly because Lindsey Graham has been diametrically opposed to everything Donald Trump has ever said on regime change for years and years and years. And yet it's it's probably the quintessential political maneuvering beyond all political maneuvering that a person so diametrically opposed to everything that MAGA stands for has infiltrated MAGA and is uh pulling MAGA over towards regime change.

More from Rand Paul play this clip. This is something that I I remember in the first debate in 2016, the first presidential debate when I was there in the primary u talking to his family and how they all said, "Oh, we liked Ron Paul. We liked the Paul family and we like this idea of not being involved in this war." It was something I liked about Donald Trump. It was one of the things whenever I had misgivings about something else, I would always come back and say, "Well, he's the best we've ever had. Much better than the Bushes who were war mad and wanted to be involved in all these crazy wars overseas. sort of make the world safe for democracy. I never liked any of that and I thought Trump was different and so it disappoints me. But he he's under the the thr of Lindsey M.

Here's Ran Paul again. Let's play it. Senator, what does it say that he alerted the oil companies about his strike on Venezuela before he alerted Congress?

Bizarre notion of the hierarchy of a democracy, you know, to think that he's going to go to private companies and talk to them about this. And really in the end, I'm all for American oil companies if they want to freely make contract with a freely elected government. But it's not our business to sign up contracts. It's not our business to tell a Venezuela company, okay, you can be president if you'll make a deal with five of our companies. I mean, that is the gunboat diplomacy of the 19th century and won't make the people happy.

I mean, really, what we need to be hoping and praying for is that the people in Venezuela vote for a non-socialist. I think this is about socialism versus capitalism, free markets versus controlled markets. And they've chosen socialists uh for the last 30 years before Maduro, Chavez, before Chavez. There's a whole string of them back into the 70s. And so this was the Chavez and Maduro were sort of the end, the culmination, and then our embargo and sanctions didn't help it either. But uh their socialism has utterly failed. I hope they won't choose the same thing again.

This is what Senator Collins had to say. Let's play it. your reaction to Donald Trump giving oil companies the heads up before Congress on on a strike on on the strike on Venezuela.

I'm not aware that he did that. I do think Congress should have been informed earlier.

And finally, MAGA Republican Senator James Langford. Let's play it. Uh so, quick question on Venezuela. Um what does it say that President Trump notified the oil companies before he notified Congress?

I have not heard that actually, so I don't know on that. Okay. Yeah. Do you feel like you know enough about what it means that we are running Venezuela? Uh, I don't think anybody knows at this point. So, the vice president is now president of Venezuela. She's got to be able to cooperate with us in the days ahead. Obviously, she is a socialist had a long history of her Marxism there. So,

what information are you looking to find out just process what happens next, where things are going, okay, and what kind of cooperation we're getting from Venezuelan leadership. Do you feel misled?

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Questions about this episode

What is "🚨Congress SPILLS THE BEANS to Meidas ON CAPITOL HILL" about?

Congress members from both parties are responding to the establishment of a new DC bureau by the Mightiest Touch network, with reactions captured by reporter Pablo Monriquez on Capitol Hill. Key highlights include Republican Congressman Thomas Massie's criticism of the delays in releasing Epstein files and concerns over excessive redactions, while Congressman Jamie Raskin suggests that U.S.…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Pablo Monriquez, Congressman Thomas Massie, Lindsey Graham, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congress member Walenshaw, Braden Schneider. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "🚨Congress SPILLS THE BEANS to Meidas ON CAPITOL HILL"?

The episode runs 16 min; the transcript is about 2,988 words in 49 timestamped sections.

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