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Elizabeth Warren: “Pete Hegseth was nominated principally because he was very…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Trump's Policies and Administration Challenges

Published April 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:22

It is so clear that he is not ready for prime time. Look, we all knew this at the time. He was originally nominated, that he Pete Hegseth was nominated principally because he was very, very, very, very loyal to Donald Trump. And he looked good on television and gave a kind of rah rah talk around defense. But the truth was he didn't have the experience, he didn't have the background. (01:22–01:31)

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Asserts that Pete Hegseth's nomination was due to his loyalty to Donald Trump.

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“Tim Cook put a million dollars into Donald Trump's inauguration campaign or inauguration events.”
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“A man who makes $8 million a day just on his federal contracts with our government.”
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“In the dozen years, [the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] has discovered about $20 billion in fraud.”
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“They've helped more than 200 million Americans.”
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“Elon Musk put about a third of a billion dollars into helping Donald Trump get elected.”
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“Pete Hegseth literally puts our entire national defense at risk, not once, but twice that we know of.”
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“You're not supposed to have those calls over signal, no matter who initiated them.”
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“The Trump administration is not big on accountability.”
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“Economists have told us, Wall Street has told us and is telling us pretty firmly right now... we're moving toward recession with these…”
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“Jerome Powell [said] no one [is] out there enforcing the federal laws to keep American families from getting cheated.”
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“Only Congress authorized any president to do this in a state of emergency.”
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“The power resides with Congress to set tariffs.”
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“Donald Trump's form of doing tariffs is the worst possible in terms of driving up costs.”
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“Tariffs are driving up costs for families all across this country and driving up unemployment simultaneously.”
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“Jerome Powell, head of the Fed, has already said [tariffs] will raise prices across the board.”
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“There's no business in this country or anywhere in the world that can say, okay, now's the time for me to invest $100 million in building…”
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“Part of what has given us a strong economy for literally for centuries has been that we run a pretty honest game here.”
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“There appears to be an uptick in price, meaning more people were trying to buy just shortly before the public announcement.”
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“Inflation seems to be coming down, is down, unemployment is down, that economy is humming and GDP is growing.”
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“Donald Trump has totally turned that [the economy] around.”
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“The President of the United States does not have the power to fire the head of the Fed.”
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“It will cause the markets to crash.”
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“Donald Trump indicates when he does this that he doesn't feel bound by law.”
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“We have a constitution that says Congress writes the laws and enacts them.”
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“The administration is supposed to administer those laws, and the courts are supposed to make sure that the administration follows those…”
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“Donald Trump is basically saying to Congress, I'm not going to follow the laws you wrote.”
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“It's just not this individual. The focus is on this one. But you're exactly right, Katie.”
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“In the United States, nobody gets disappeared without a chance to get in front of a court. It's called due process of law.”
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“The federal government has already admitted, oh, this was a mistake.”
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“Elon Musk has been leading the charge on this [cutting Social Security benefits].”
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“The administration on its own, cannot cut Social Security benefits.”
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“They found a backdoor way to cut benefits.”
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