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Hegseth Faces Impeachment, Trump Warns Democrats & ICE Detains 8-Year-Old · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth is facing impeachment, and the push
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  Speaker 1: to remove him is coming from a fellow Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he addresses the eight articles and doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and
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  Speaker 2: do some pull-ups and, you know, call everybody fat and gay.
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  Speaker 1: And President Trump has a warning for Democrats preparing to
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  Speaker 1: investigate his administration.
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  Speaker 3: Massey is a loser, stone cold loser.
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  Speaker 1: And an eight-year-old boy goes to a routine immigration appointment,
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  Speaker 1: but what happens next leaves his family searching for answers.
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  Speaker 3: We are living under a cloud of terror.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, November 11th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. We begin in Washington, where Defense Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth could face an impeachment vote as early as
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  Speaker 1: this week. Republican Congressman Tom Massey introduced eight articles of
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  Speaker 1: impeachment Monday, accusing Hegseth of illegally continuing the war in
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  Speaker 1: Iran without congressional approval. The charges also include the alleged
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and deadly strikes on
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  Speaker 1: suspected drug boats. The House now has two days to
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  Speaker 1: take up the issue. And Massey says what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: now is nothing compared to what could happen when the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats take control of Congress in January.
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  Speaker 4: I'm being polite here. What is an impeachment? An impeachment
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  Speaker 4: is just firing somebody, really. You don't go to prison.
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  Speaker 4: You don't go to jail. You're not you don't pay
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  Speaker 4: a fine.
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  Speaker 2: OK, when the Democrats get in charge, they are going
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  Speaker 2: to be very vicious.
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  Speaker 4: If Pete Hegseth doesn't leave. And this is the answer
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  Speaker 4: to your question, will it work?
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  Speaker 2: I hope for his sake it does work because the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are going to bring people in here who have
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  Speaker 2: served under him and with him, give them protection. They'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to say what he's actually done, the things
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  Speaker 2: that he has ignored, the things that he did that
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  Speaker 2: caused civilian casualties, the way he's, you know, ignored the laws.
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  Speaker 4: And then there'll be a full, robust trial over in
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  Speaker 4: the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Hexeth called the impeachment effort a sham and President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is defending him. Not even a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I think it would destroy the Democrat Party if they
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  Speaker 4: did that.
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  Speaker 1: It's impeachment for no reason. The impeachment doesn't automatically mean
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  Speaker 1: removal from the office. The House would first have to
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  Speaker 1: approve the charges, and then two-thirds of the Senate would
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  Speaker 1: have to vote to remove Pegseth. And speaking of political
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  Speaker 1: battles ahead in Washington, President Trump has a message for Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: If you come after me, don't be surprised if investigators
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  Speaker 1: come after you. So here's what's happening. Democrats are preparing
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  Speaker 1: to take control of Congress in January, and they're already
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  Speaker 1: talking about launching investigations into Trump and members of his administration.
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  Speaker 1: That could mean congressional hearings, subpoenas, and demands for documents
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  Speaker 1: about decisions made by the White House. But Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Todd Blanch are warning Democrats that they could
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  Speaker 1: face criminal investigations themselves if they cross the line. So
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  Speaker 1: think about what's happening here. One side is preparing to
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  Speaker 1: investigate the administration, while the administration is warning that those
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  Speaker 1: investigations could bring legal trouble for the people conducting them.
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  Speaker 1: But incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman Robert Garcia says he's
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  Speaker 1: not intimidated.
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  Speaker 5: What Todd Valencia is doing right now is a threat.
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  Speaker 5: He is threatening our committee. He's trying to stop us
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  Speaker 5: from doing real oversight. He is the person that should
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  Speaker 5: be reading the Constitution because the Constitution makes it very
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  Speaker 5: clear that it's our job in the Congress to conduct
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  Speaker 5: oversight of the executive and the administration. And the fact
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  Speaker 5: that he won't recognize that, all he wants to do
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  Speaker 5: is protect Donald Trump, is protect Donald Trump's cabinet and
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  Speaker 5: administration officials. That is not his job, I want to
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  Speaker 5: remind him. They can come after us however they want.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to be intimidated.
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  Speaker 1: And this just isn't another political fight in Washington. Government
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  Speaker 1: corruption was a major concern for voters in the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: According to a CBS exit poll, nearly nine in 10
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  Speaker 1: voters said corruption was a major factor in their decision,
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  Speaker 1: putting it right alongside the cost of living. So while
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  Speaker 1: Washington prepares for another round of investigations, voters will be
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  Speaker 1: watching to see whether those investigations actually uncover wrongdoing or
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  Speaker 1: simply turn into another political showdown. And lastly, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to San Diego, California, where an immigration case involving an
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  Speaker 1: eight-year-old boy is raising some very serious questions. And what
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  Speaker 1: makes this story especially troubling is that the little boy
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  Speaker 1: wasn't arrested for committing a crime. He was simply going
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  Speaker 1: to an immigration appointment with his uncle. This child is
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  Speaker 1: from Haiti, and his uncle has been taking care of
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  Speaker 1: him since his father was deported last year. But when
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  Speaker 1: they arrived for their routine appointment, immigration officials say the
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  Speaker 1: uncle couldn't prove he was the boy's legal guardian. So
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  Speaker 1: instead of allowing the child to leave with the man
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  Speaker 1: who had been caring for him, federal officials took the
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  Speaker 1: third grader into custody. And according to his family, they
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  Speaker 1: still don't know exactly where he is. Imagine being eight
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  Speaker 1: years old, going to an appointment with someone you trust
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly being separated from them. The case has shaken
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  Speaker 1: San Diego's Haitian community.
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  Speaker 3: We are living under a cloud of terror. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he is fearful, he is traumatized. So we are praying
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  Speaker 3: and we are fighting and we will continue to fight
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  Speaker 3: to get a solution on his behalf.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the other part of the story. Immigration officials
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  Speaker 1: say the boy's uncle couldn't prove he was the boy's
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  Speaker 1: legal guardian. But the child's school district says the uncle
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  Speaker 1: was listed in school records as the authorized caregiver. And
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  Speaker 1: the boys' elementary school, his classmates are so worried about
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  Speaker 1: him that the district has brought in crisis counselors. This
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  Speaker 1: is happening as the Trump administration has ended TPS, or
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  Speaker 1: Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, a program that allowed hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of people to legally live and work in
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  Speaker 1: the United States without fear of deportation. And this case
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  Speaker 1: isn't happening in isolation. Federal data shows more than 8,000
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  Speaker 1: children were taken into immigration custody between January 2025 and
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  Speaker 1: in July of 2026. California Congressman Juan Vargas is now
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  Speaker 1: working with the family to help locate the child. And
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  Speaker 1: community leaders along with the school district have reached out
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  Speaker 1: to the Trump administration asking for his release. But there's
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  Speaker 1: still one question his family wants answered. Where is this
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  Speaker 1: little boy and when will he be allowed to go home?
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network.