You had an exchange with an audience member where you confirmed that you would
vote to impeach President Trump if given the opportunity. Those remarks came
on the same evening Trump addressed the nation, as far as the war in Afghanistan.
Talk a little bit about your thoughts on the president and those remarks.
Donald Trump is the president the United States and we want him to be
successful, especially as it pertains to supporting our servicemembers and
conducting our foreign policy and the wars that we wage, as it pertains to
meeting the commitments that we have to our veterans – those who borne the battle
coming back from those wars – on those things where we might be able to agree.
An infrastructure spending program that'll put millions of Americans,
hundreds of thousands potentially of Texans, back to work. And so I will try to
find common ground where we have common cause.
But his mendacity, his lies to the American people, whether it's about
Mexican immigrants being rapists and criminals, whether
whether it's about 3,000,000 quote-unquote illegals voting unlawfully in the last election,
whether it's the potential collusion with the country of Russia or the obstruction of justice at the highest levels,
the effort to intimidate those who are investigating and following the facts and his
tacit approval, and I would argue even encouragement, of those same
white nationalists who were marching in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I do not believe that he is fit to lead this country but there is
a democratic lawful process that we must follow and guess what? That process cannot work if we are
not able to join with Republicans who see beyond partisanship and what's good
for their careers to what's best for this country.
You've talked about Republicans. You road tripped it with Congressman Will Hurd who got two
new Democratic challengers over the weekend. Do you plan to endorse in that race?
I don't, no. Listen, I've got nearly 18 months left in
my term in Congress and what you want from me is not politicking for other
people and other congressional districts. You want me to find a way to work with
Will Hurd to, as we have, try to figure out immigration reform, improve the
conditions for our veterans ensuring that we can fulfill our
commitments to them, supporting our servicemembers, trying to devise a
strategy for the wars that we are fighting overseas including the longest
one in US history in Afghanistan.
I can't work with Republicans if they think that I'm trying to screw them by working against their re-election
so I'm going to stay out of that race. I wish the people of that district the best
in choosing the best person to represent their interests.
I'm not I'm not going to be a voice in that election.
Veronica Escobar is set to announce on Saturday likely for your seat.
Are you formally endorsing her for that race?
I love Veronica Escobar. She has been a phenomenal county judge and as a son of
a former El Paso County Judge, I'll tell you I have some basis in this:
she's the best county judge El Paso has had.
She took on corruption at the courthouse and won.
She set a very high standard for honesty and leadership and public
service and I think we in El Paso would be well served by Veronica representing
our interests in the US Congress.
In addition she would be, believe it or not,
the first Latina to represent a congressional district in the US House of Representatives from Texas.
So for all the right reasons including the historical ones,
she's the person that I'm going to get behind him and
I'm going to encourage my fellow El Pasoans to do the same.
A lot of talk about Confederate symbols being removed from college campuses, state grounds.
What's your take on how these, as part of our history, should be handled modern-day?
By-and-large I like the way that those who are in
positions of public trust are trying to handle this.
We look at the president of UT-Austin
who made the difficult but important decision to remove those
statues from a place of public honor to one more befitting a museum
where they can be placed in context and the legacy of slavery,
the Confederacy and those in Texas who joined the Confederacy can be placed in context.
We hear Democrats at every level here in the state talk about voter turnout.
We heard it last week at the Capitol, Congressman Castro was talking about it.
How do you translate turnouts like rallies here in Killeen
to get them to the polls?
Well, when folks describe us as a red state or a Republican state
or perhaps in the future, a blue state,
they're missing the point that this is a non-voting state. And whether it's the active
suppression of the vote, which the courts have found to be true four times just this year,
whether it is the perpetual re-election of members of Congress in
the Senate, ninety-three percent reelection rate over over 50 years.
So when they have a member of Congress running for the Senate,
as I am in my case,
who doesn't take PAC money, who is not just introducing term limits legislation
but is holding himself to no more than two terms in the Senate and
who wants to defeat the gerrymandering in Texas
where members of Congress choose their voters
instead of the other way around
by setting up a nonpartisan redistricting commission,
they have a chance to be part of something that is
of, for and by Texans.
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