I really like this witness -- he knows his subject, he backs up what he has made public (via X, etc.) and has comprehensive responses to every question lobbed at him. Kudos to this gentleman!
@@fifermcgee5971 thing is, she's not nearly the rudest a politician has been to a witness. I've heard some politicians say things that would've gotten them suckerpunched on the streets
Ok, even though she sounds exactly as stupid as Kennedy, she doesn't do the thing where he talks and looks like he forgot to put his false teeth in his mouth. That's the only way I can tell them apart anyway.
They're just brought in to sit there while the Republicans make speeches to be clipped for Fox and Twitter. If they speak at all it will be cut down and made to look guilty of some MAGA thoughtcrime.
Exactly! He is there so she could bully him and look "good" to her donors and voters. 🤷. She can care less what he has to say and if it is the truth or not.
Thats because magas don't like facts unless its their own they can make up. Like elections...funny how its rigged when they lose but all is good when they win???
@@miltoncat but the majority of voters there are still idiots because clearly she's still in office so... the voters are a bigger problem than even she is.
The funniest part is that they then have the gall to conceive of a conspiracy where they're the ones being canceled. All we hear is them complaining and continuing to lie. Do they know what 'canceling' means?
There may be a case for some people's lack of education, but in Blackburn's case there is no excuse for her utter lack of integrity and also her huge amount of ignorance.
Not how things work. Kids were sleeping in school and showing up with chemical burns. Teacher reported it. The kids were cleaning the meat processing plant on 3rd shift. Iowa responded by lowering the legal age of employment and putting in laws that underage kids can’t sue if hurt on the job.
What a harpy. Wouldn't even let him speak. Typical politician grandstanding. It is all about feeding your base, and looking good for your donors. He new what he was talking about, she wouldn't let him get a word in.
Well, first thing first. Blackburn is doing an injustice to US citizens by speaking over and cutting off the young man she asked to come and speak with her. If you had any data to back up your claims you would have brought it and showed it, Katie Porter you are not. Very bad look treating citizens this way and you seem scared to allow him to speak. Maybe miss Porter can give you some lessons in decorum, grace and ability. If you bring a person to speak I expect you to allow them to speak and not act like a damned spoiled child. Reflect the position allowed you with at least the tiniest amount of dignity or gtfo.
Honestly, I would love to be called. I could sit back, kick my feet up on the desk. When they asked what was I doing, I could just say "Well, you don't really want an answer from me, so just go ahead and say your piece. I've got some work to catch up on." and pull out my phone.
@@norrisfong6445 I would enjoy seeing Katie Potter in a video series explaining to all of us just how much we don't know about the machinations of DC. She could make money, educate all of us, create accountability based on a more educated society.
@@oldinmassachusetts6251 Right? I mean ffs I wanted to hear his rebuttal. The way she talks over him would have gotten me slapped by my mother for showing disrespect and acting like a child. I would have had to tap out cause she would have beat me silly, deservedly so. It is painfully obvious who is the adult in this situation, and it isn't Blackburn. This is, again, a failure of station and reeks of poor leadership and is a indication that the people of TN are incapable of electing representation that is mature, affective and has at least some decorum. They do rank at the very bottom of every educational chart, so there is that.
She's constantly digging the hole deeper: the claims of missing children are a misrepresentation of what she outright said were just people that didn't appear at a hearing (because those hearings are bullsh*t and are so rushed, it's no wonder we have immigration gridlock and the like). This is why TN is a laughingstock, we have career politicians who don't give a sh*t about being accurate as long as they can posture that they did stuff in their correspondences with the public they represent. But once it becomes evident they're going to fail (which is a monumental occurrence), they'll pivot to something else, often private business interests they already have connections to. In other words, corporate corruption!
At 0:51, interrupting, she says "may I please tell you stories..." That's the whole game here. Why not just have a press conference if that's what you want to do, Senator?
She is deaf to whatever he says. Unable to listen. She is a United States Senator for gawd sakes. Like a very poor high school teacher, charging ahead with her narrative regardless of facts. Boooooooo
I live in TN. She's probably in wit the daughters of the confederacy organization. Remember- every atrocity committed by white men was cosigned by white women
Just the worst kind of person: always convinced they're right and unwilling to even listen to someone else, because that might mean admitting you're wrong. And then you won't get that sweet lobbyist $$
VERY RUDE WOMAN - KEEPS TALKING OVER THE WITNESS. She'd be p*ssed if he did that to her. Her assumptions of what the federal agency is supposed to track is wildly different from what they are actually REQUIRED or ABLE to do. And if one of the involved agencies (and there are multiple agencies involved) fails to do their bit, another agency will be left looking for the docs and people and asking WTF?
Memo to Blackburn: If you don't want to hear the answer, don't ask the question. I'm tired of seeing these members of congress ask questions then talk over someone who's trying to give them an answer. It's clear to me that the members only want to grandstand.
Yes, the grandstanding is disgusting. Maybe the witnesses should just bring a mirror and let them ask themselves questions. They sure don't want to hear the answers.
What's the point of bringing people in for hearings when you're just going to talk over them when you ask them questions? Yall can post these back and forths on a social media platform that everyone can view. These hearings have always been theater and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
So.... IF we had more judges (like was requested in the Border Bill), then there would be more slots on the court dockets. If there were more slots on the court dockets, then more of these children would be called to have their cases in court. If their cases were call, then they would no longer be "missing" in Blackburn's view? So, if Blackburn really wants to make sure that the children are not "missing", then she supports the Border Bill, right? :-)
My god. Whats the point of asking a question if you aren’t going to let the witness answer? Even at the end when she had no time left, she told him she already yielded her time. 🙄. My lord!
This massive deportaion isn't going to be done for free. People will also see a lot of industries suffer when they send away thier employees becuase they have no green cards. Plus many of thes evacated jobs are not what "Americans" want to take for the wages and hours and will be getting. Plus these latinos who think that they are not like "those people" will feel the same way when they come after their dear Abuelita.
Are you asking a question lady? It's not a deposition more less a discussion if you just grandstand. This is why we're an idiocy of a congress. None of the talented people take the job.
It always amazes me that some women, in Congress, with an R after their name, can contort their preferred truths while questioning expert witnesses. TY Sen Durbin, for giving the witness time to finish his testimony.
The way to handle this is stand up to leave. Then when they protest, respond that since their responses were not needed, going to just grab a coffee and make a couple phone calls. Just send someone out when you are done with your monologue. Then leave.
Blackburn should never have one re election. Talk about a poser. I love how she just walks over everybody with her lack of evidence. Her behavior is fisgusting
She doesn't listen to the answers and just wants to pretend that she is correct. A fool of all fools yet she continues to be reelected from an obvious state that really needs help in schooling.
What would happen to one of these witnesses if they just said like, “shut up and let me answer your a$inine question you grandstanding, poor excuse for a legislator.” Is that a contempt thing where they would end up fined or jailed?
This politician needs to go back to school and learn ‘active listening’. School kids could teach her. Why ask questions if you are not going to respectfully listen to the answer?! It time for her to go.
Kudos on that one. How about asking the senator if she was taught manners about interrupting people when they are talking.Why show up if they won't let you answer?
When are the people in these hearings going to tell the clowns to EFF off because they have no idea what they are talking about. It's just BeeS to get sound bites.
Why was the witness there, Marsha? It was apparent that you wanted to ask the questions and answer them for him. It's not a good look, but your hair is dandy.
Tweets on X...someone's not nearly as savvy with current events and social media as they seem to think. But that old saying about politicians and bluffing comes to mind
I despise grandstanding politicians who use the bully pulpit to talk over witnesses.
That’s republicans for you. They ask the question and then answer it for you. Abysmal!
Same here!
Ditto.
Joe McCarthy (the 50s vetsion) all over again.
I can't even watch this. Her voice grates on my nerves.
If she has all the answers, why does she keep asking questions. She was just grandstanding.
Republicans like to put on a show for their base because they know that they will believe everything they say,🙄
And interrupting him as he answered her questions
I really like this witness -- he knows his subject, he backs up what he has made public (via X, etc.) and has comprehensive responses to every question lobbed at him. Kudos to this gentleman!
it's easy when the person asking the questions is as dumb as a dirt clod.
Do most people realize that Blackburn is lying through her teeth?
yes
The Home-Ec queen is in need of a tinier kingdom. Let's give it to her out of earshot, and eyesight, and very much alone.
But are they really HER teeth?
@@buffstraw2969probably there not her teeth. Sh is so van🤣😂🐷🤥💩
Yet another lie @@buffstraw2969!
She really doesn't want to hear his answers
Super professor umbridge vibes
It's not about answers, it's about gotcha questions they can make stupid shorts with
She's extremely rude.
@@fifermcgee5971 thing is, she's not nearly the rudest a politician has been to a witness. I've heard some politicians say things that would've gotten them suckerpunched on the streets
She just likes to make herself look important and knowledgeable
She’s actually Senator Kennedy in Drag, prove me wrong!
Ok, even though she sounds exactly as stupid as Kennedy, she doesn't do the thing where he talks and looks like he forgot to put his false teeth in his mouth. That's the only way I can tell them apart anyway.
Dollar store drag!
My thought exactly
She is the female Foghorn Leghorn.
Foghorn Leghorn and his wife...
This sh*t happened under trump and that's where this hot mess started!
Right😅
Facts
@brandontrammel4581 you never been to the valle. I live here.
@@robertbrooks9653 respectfully what does California have to do with this?
@brandontrammel4581 if you live in California. That explains everything about you. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, like she cares about these children. NOT!
Watching Senator Blackburn is a vivid example of someone suspending thought while talking.
and someone suspending truth and integrity.
She is the reason TN is trash!!
320,000 children? Stop lying, Marsha.
MAGAts love using that stat. They literally know nothing about what it means but that doesn’t stop them.
What's the purpose of having a witness when they can't speak because they keep getting talked over by someone that doesn't want to hear the truth???
They're just brought in to sit there while the Republicans make speeches to be clipped for Fox and Twitter. If they speak at all it will be cut down and made to look guilty of some MAGA thoughtcrime.
Exactly! He is there so she could bully him and look "good" to her donors and voters. 🤷. She can care less what he has to say and if it is the truth or not.
I hate that they ask questions but don't let the witnesses answer
OMG! Yes it drives me nuts!
And she represents that very point, expertly
Thats because magas don't like facts unless its their own they can make up. Like elections...funny how its rigged when they lose but all is good when they win???
Tennessee not sending us their best. What a charlatan.
Hey, I tried to get her outta there. Lots of us are embarrassed of her.
@@miltoncat but the majority of voters there are still idiots because clearly she's still in office so... the voters are a bigger problem than even she is.
Are you sure she isn’t the best Tennessee has to offer?
@@mezenman solid work. made me chuckle.
@@miltoncat I tried to vote her out as well. She’s such an embarrassment.
To Senator Blackburn - "engage brain before speaking".
She fails to realize that we have two ears and one mouth for a reason.
What brain?
@@Wilber-r7r In all fairness, we know she has a brain, she's not properly using it.
Remember if a republican is talking they're either lying or complaining nothing else
Indeed, apparently her evidence is "we have heard"?
FACT 😢
Yes, one more thing. Republicans like to accuse with no facts to back up their false claims.
Tony:Exactly!!!!
The funniest part is that they then have the gall to conceive of a conspiracy where they're the ones being canceled. All we hear is them complaining and continuing to lie. Do they know what 'canceling' means?
There may be a case for some people's lack of education, but in Blackburn's case there is no excuse for her utter lack of integrity and also her huge amount of ignorance.
Sure there is. Money from Russia.
Utter lack of empathy or compassion she’s somewhere on the sociopathic continuum
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha is a disaster. She won't even listen to this guy.
she's not there to listen.. she's there to get her "soundbite" for the inbreds in Tennessee to cheer about.
Lol
She won’t even let him talk!
If these children are working in plants, then go after the business that is "employing" them.
That's what normal politicians would do, but Marsha is an "ick" girl
Not how things work. Kids were sleeping in school and showing up with chemical burns. Teacher reported it. The kids were cleaning the meat processing plant on 3rd shift. Iowa responded by lowering the legal age of employment and putting in laws that underage kids can’t sue if hurt on the job.
I think the person being questioned should just say "once you've gotten your sound byte, we can discuss the issue" and just politely wait
What a harpy. Wouldn't even let him speak. Typical politician grandstanding. It is all about feeding your base, and looking good for your donors. He new what he was talking about, she wouldn't let him get a word in.
She was obviously pissed that he was fact checking her in front of everyone,🤣
Well, first thing first. Blackburn is doing an injustice to US citizens by speaking over and cutting off the young man she asked to come and speak with her. If you had any data to back up your claims you would have brought it and showed it, Katie Porter you are not. Very bad look treating citizens this way and you seem scared to allow him to speak. Maybe miss Porter can give you some lessons in decorum, grace and ability. If you bring a person to speak I expect you to allow them to speak and not act like a damned spoiled child. Reflect the position allowed you with at least the tiniest amount of dignity or gtfo.
Honestly, I would love to be called. I could sit back, kick my feet up on the desk. When they asked what was I doing, I could just say "Well, you don't really want an answer from me, so just go ahead and say your piece. I've got some work to catch up on." and pull out my phone.
blackburn could not learn in the month that porter has left in the house.
@@norrisfong6445 I would enjoy seeing Katie Potter in a video series explaining to all of us just how much we don't know about the machinations of DC. She could make money, educate all of us, create accountability based on a more educated society.
@@mikemahoney295 hired for fact checking doge would be good.
I hope she'll be back in '26.
@@oldinmassachusetts6251 Right? I mean ffs I wanted to hear his rebuttal. The way she talks over him would have gotten me slapped by my mother for showing disrespect and acting like a child. I would have had to tap out cause she would have beat me silly, deservedly so. It is painfully obvious who is the adult in this situation, and it isn't Blackburn.
This is, again, a failure of station and reeks of poor leadership and is a indication that the people of TN are incapable of electing representation that is mature, affective and has at least some decorum. They do rank at the very bottom of every educational chart, so there is that.
She's constantly digging the hole deeper: the claims of missing children are a misrepresentation of what she outright said were just people that didn't appear at a hearing (because those hearings are bullsh*t and are so rushed, it's no wonder we have immigration gridlock and the like). This is why TN is a laughingstock, we have career politicians who don't give a sh*t about being accurate as long as they can posture that they did stuff in their correspondences with the public they represent. But once it becomes evident they're going to fail (which is a monumental occurrence), they'll pivot to something else, often private business interests they already have connections to. In other words, corporate corruption!
Blackburn is stupid but she knows what she's supposed to say.
Marsha is not a bright bulb.
I love how this exact same clip was shown on Forbes channel but titled Marsha schools witness 😂😂 right… Marsha is clearly being schooled here.
Another fact. Just because a congressperson says it is true. It's not.
😂😂😂He is tired of her foolishness..😂😂😂
She knows this guy came with facts so she just talks over him. She knows he has all his info ready to go.
We all know it. Now plug your ears like Dejoy
all those kids are working in packing plants in Iowa.
Nah. It is Arkansas that is putting kids to work in the packing plants.
tomato tomatto
I've been to Iowa. It's horrible.
At 0:51, interrupting, she says "may I please tell you stories..."
That's the whole game here. Why not just have a press conference if that's what you want to do, Senator?
Hearings are for facts, not maga stories.
The miserable excuse for a senator plays the well trodden repug playbook by talking over the witness then make declarative statements.
She is deaf to whatever he says. Unable to listen. She is a United States Senator for gawd sakes. Like a very poor high school teacher, charging ahead with her narrative regardless of facts. Boooooooo
I live in TN. She's probably in wit the daughters of the confederacy organization. Remember- every atrocity committed by white men was cosigned by white women
She can talk your ear off but won't listen to the witness. Shameful.
Just the worst kind of person: always convinced they're right and unwilling to even listen to someone else, because that might mean admitting you're wrong. And then you won't get that sweet lobbyist $$
VERY RUDE WOMAN - KEEPS TALKING OVER THE WITNESS.
She'd be p*ssed if he did that to her.
Her assumptions of what the federal agency is supposed to track is wildly different from what they are actually REQUIRED or ABLE to do. And if one of the involved agencies (and there are multiple agencies involved) fails to do their bit, another agency will be left looking for the docs and people and asking WTF?
It's all conservatives in these hearings. It's not unique to her. They all do it.
And they keep voting for her. WTF
Memo to Blackburn: If you don't want to hear the answer, don't ask the question.
I'm tired of seeing these members of congress ask questions then talk over someone who's trying to give them an answer. It's clear to me that the members only want to grandstand.
They tamed her hair but not her mouth😂
⏰ RUN OUT THE CLOCK -- Oldest trick in the GOP playbook.
Yes, the grandstanding is disgusting. Maybe the witnesses should just bring a mirror and let them ask themselves questions. They sure don't want to hear the answers.
Marsha is an embarrassment to my state of Tn & yet the repugs here still vote for here! Sickening !
so they can own the libs, they don't care who they vote in as long as their team wins.
She is Tennessee’s Marge Greene.
@@heehaw8401she is that for sure!
I wish people would apply common sense when voting
What's the point of bringing people in for hearings when you're just going to talk over them when you ask them questions? Yall can post these back and forths on a social media platform that everyone can view. These hearings have always been theater and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
So.... IF we had more judges (like was requested in the Border Bill), then there would be more slots on the court dockets. If there were more slots on the court dockets, then more of these children would be called to have their cases in court. If their cases were call, then they would no longer be "missing" in Blackburn's view? So, if Blackburn really wants to make sure that the children are not "missing", then she supports the Border Bill, right? :-)
My god. Whats the point of asking a question if you aren’t going to let the witness answer? Even at the end when she had no time left, she told him she already yielded her time. 🙄. My lord!
Marsha Blackkkburn hasn't been here to impoverished East Tennessee in the 13 years I've lived here
One of the dumbest Senators along with John Kennedy
We really need to fix those lead pipes man
Google her bio, then you'll know - what you see is what they got 💩
Ok, whatever Blackburn, just wait and see the biggest human rights disaster when Trump takes office. Such a hypocrite.
This massive deportaion isn't going to be done for free. People will also see a lot of industries suffer when they send away thier employees becuase they have no green cards. Plus many of thes evacated jobs are not what "Americans" want to take for the wages and hours and will be getting. Plus these latinos who think that they are not like "those people" will feel the same way when they come after their dear Abuelita.
And the world will be watching
That was ttumps fault the first time they just blame biden Obama the riddler Santa Claus they have no soul
Martha doesn't want to hear from the witness. She only wants to hear herself.
Why ask the witness a question and then talk over him, putting forth your own beliefs. What do you learn from that?
What she knows is very little. She just wanted to plow through without being fact checked...FAIL!
Can republicans stop talking for a minute and let someone else answer the question.
Hearings apparently dont include listening
Marsha is in the Dumbest Senator contest with Tuberville!
How does a two year old answer a court request to appear?
Are you asking a question lady? It's not a deposition more less a discussion if you just grandstand. This is why we're an idiocy of a congress. None of the talented people take the job.
I really love ( sarcasm) how lawmakers ask a question then NEVER let the witness speak. They (lawmakers) know they are WRONG!
Since Blackburn is incredibly stupid, I’m not surprised
Why do they not allow the people to speak why do they have them people need to speak out
Typical rep garbage, just interrupt and talk over the info they don’t want to know
Why is she asking questions to the witness if she does not listen, if she constantly interupts and then tells him what she thinks she knows?
Sir! Sir! Would you please stop talking and let me lie to the American people for goodness sake!?
Why does this woman bother to ask questions, if her true intent is to interrupt the moment the witness starts to answer?
Well, well Tennessee has them a MTG.
The racist ignorant senator with no knowledge of immigrants trying to bully the expert. Pathetic.
It always amazes me that some women, in Congress, with an R after their name, can contort their preferred truths while questioning expert witnesses. TY Sen Durbin, for giving the witness time to finish his testimony.
The way to handle this is stand up to leave.
Then when they protest, respond that since their responses were not needed, going to just grab a coffee and make a couple phone calls. Just send someone out when you are done with your monologue. Then leave.
Wow!!! I've thought this ALL THE TIME!! People should just get up and walk out when they are being talked over. Nicely stated.
Didn't her parents teach her NOT TO INTERUPT while people answer your question??
Totally agree with you!!
Blackburn should never have one re election. Talk about a poser. I love how she just walks over everybody with her lack of evidence. Her behavior is fisgusting
Her time expired? ... She just yielded it back! Of course the time expired.
What facts does she have to say it was a success?
You can always tell someone knows they're wrong when they won't let the other person speak
She doesn't listen to the answers and just wants to pretend that she is correct. A fool of all fools yet she continues to be reelected from an obvious state that really needs help in schooling.
Marsha is incompetent...she is perfect
these civil servants in our gov't are arrogant and rude and completely full of themselves.
The ability to have an open mind -even a teeny bit open - is completely gone in Congress. On both sides of the aisle.
Didnt all those children get separated under Trump administration.
Indeed, but the gop magats don't care. This is all about grandstanding.
What would happen to one of these witnesses if they just said like, “shut up and let me answer your a$inine question you grandstanding, poor excuse for a legislator.” Is that a contempt thing where they would end up fined or jailed?
LOVE IT! Exactly what I would say or "Were you not taught manners about interrupting people?" If you won't let me answer, why am I here?
This politician needs to go back to school and learn ‘active listening’. School kids could teach her. Why ask questions if you are not going to respectfully listen to the answer?! It time for her to go.
Kudos on that one. How about asking the senator if she was taught manners about interrupting people when they are talking.Why show up if they won't let you answer?
Well said!
When are the people in these hearings going to tell the clowns to EFF off because they have no idea what they are talking about. It's just BeeS to get sound bites.
MB is awful!
I love how he standing up to these liars
Love this guy answering these stupid questions by gop!
Marshall cares more about her hair than children
I hate that she represents my state - she doesn't represent me. She's a disgrace.
She doesn’t represent me either and many other sane human beings.
Read about Joe McCarthy's final years, Mrs Blackburn. You know, that guy from way back in the 50s?
posturing. congressional hearings are a joke...on both sides
She's insufferable. Too much Aqua Net
Why was the witness there, Marsha? It was apparent that you wanted to ask the questions and answer them for him. It's not a good look, but your hair is dandy.
She doesn't want to collect or consider information, she just wants to pretend to be right. What an embarrassment.
How did the witness “school” her? She can’t learn anything. Too dumb.
These people are insane.
Her ignorance is showing. The good people of Tennessee deserve better.
Tweets on X...someone's not nearly as savvy with current events and social media as they seem to think. But that old saying about politicians and bluffing comes to mind
I lost faith in this party.
Nobody with an accent like that needs to be in charge of anything