ICYMI: Congressman Crow on Real Time with Bill Maher
LOS ANGELES — Congressman Jason Crow joined Real Time with Bill Maher for a wide-ranging discussion on his work to lower costs for Coloradans, what the Democratic Party needs to do differently, and the importance of holding Donald Trump accountable.
Watch the full episode of Real Time with Bill Maher here.
Crow on the Epstein Files:
Watch: “Trump has more pictures with Epstein than Melania, so there’s definitely something there, right?”
Crow on the Democratic Path Forward:
Watch: “I’m the first Democrat to ever hold my seat in the history of the Sixth District of Colorado.”
Watch: “You can’t lose 90% of American counties last November and say everything is going well. The key to fixing things and moving forward is to do that introspection, to do the hard look. I’m a proud Democrat. I grew up in a working class family in the upper midwest. Most of my family are conservatives, they support Trump in many cases. But I’m a Democrat because I want a level playing field, but I know things are not going well. Working people can’t afford to live in cities where Democrats govern, we have in too many instances not done enough to keep communities safe. There’s a lot we have to do differently, there’s no doubt about it. And we have to have that hard look.”
Watch: “What we have to do is get back to issues of universal common good. We spend a lot of time focusing on very small issues, that are morally virtuous in many instances, but just because an issue is morally virtuous and right, and we should fight for people, doesn’t mean we make it the basis of our campaigns. We have to make sure we’re focusing on the issues that cross vast swaths of the American people. That’s how we win people back.”
Crow on Trump’s Weaponization of Intelligence:
Watch: “Can we also remind ourselves that the president of the United States has weaponized the Director of National Intelligence and our intelligence community to try to obfuscate [the Epstein Files] and use it as a distraction. How disturbing is that? You know, in a moment where, we soldiers, sailors, airmen down range conducting hundreds of dangerous missions every day, and he has weaponized our [Director of National Intelligence] and our [intelligence community] to cover up this Epstein file issue.”
Crow on America’s Standing in the World & the Israel/Hamas Conflict:
Watch: “I spent the early part of my life fighting folks like Hamas, right? There are just evil people in the world that need to be brought to justice and need to be killed. And Hamas is in that category. There's no doubt about it. But what I also learned during that time is all the folks around them, the civilians that get caught up in that–they are victims of it too.”
“It is not an inevitable consequence of conflicts and wars that we just have to accept this level of civilian casualties and suffering. There is a different way of doing it, and that's why I have focused on saying yes, go after Hamas, make sure that Israel can be safe and prosperous and secure, but also that the Palestinians also deserve safety, prosperity, security and dignity as well.”
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