This election will determine control of Congress. Rep. Pete Aguilar, who represents California's 33rd Congressional District, shares how Democratic Party leaders are feeling as results come in.
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CHANG: Well, let me just ask you, Congressman Aguilar, are there serious plans if you retake the House as Democrats to try to impeach President Trump again?
AGUILAR: No. We are focused on delivering on the affordability agenda. Now, that doesn't mean that we are opposed to accountability and oversight. This administration needs that clearly. They are reckless and irresponsible at just about every level, including the most, you know, corrupt and inept Cabinet ever assembled. But I think we can start there. Keep in mind, it was a Republican who filed articles of impeachment on Pete Hegseth, and Speaker Johnson, who you just talked...
CHANG: Right.
AGUILAR: ...Who you just played there, actually sent us home, sent us back to our districts in September to avoid that vote because it was going to be bipartisan.
CHANG: Well, when it comes to...
AGUILAR: We believe (ph) strongly in accountability, and that's what we plan to do.
CHANG: In the last minute and a half we have left - when it comes to oversight and accountability, if Democrats were in charge of the House, do you expect to be investigating the Trump administration, and if so, what will you be looking into first?
AGUILAR: There will be a host of investigations, and Jamie Raskin with the Judiciary Committee and Robert Garcia with House Oversight will take leadership roles on those issues. And there is plenty to investigate, but I'll tell you what the American public wants us to investigate are the grift and the corruption, the self-dealing, the no-bid contracts, all of those things that are stealing taxpayers' money that otherwise could be going to deliver on the priorities that they care about, you know, delivering on healthcare.
With a majority in congress and the senate, they will of course push to impeach Trump. But whether or not that effort succeeds depends on if they can get some republicans in the senate to vote in favor of impeaching him. They need 67 senate votes to succeed.
Considering how unpopular Trump is right now, and that it's the last two years of his last term in office, some of the republican senators might realize if they cooperate with the effort they might have an easier time in office for the next 10 years. I think the next president will be democrat and they will likely be in office two terms. The GOP won't have a chance for a comeback until 2036. Do they want to have a target on their back for the next 10 years, or do they cooperate and turn over the idiot that just torpedoed their whole party in order to achieve political survival for themselves?
Every senator is a veteran politician who climbed up the ranks and knows how to play the game. I don't think they are going to sacrifice themselves to protect Trump. If stabbing him in the back ensures they stay in office as part of a tolerated, minority party then they will probably stab him good.
Honestly he deserves it.