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HUNTER WALKER: You
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people calling for impeachment.

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Do you feel like
momentum is building,

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and do you feel like most
Democrats recognize--

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are on the same page now?

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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ:
Yeah, well, clearly

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momentum has built.
We're knee deep

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here in impeachment inquiry.

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And so at this point, I think
we're beyond the question

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as to whether Trump
has committed a crime

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or whether he's violated
the Constitution.

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He's clearly engaged in
extortion and bribery.

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Question is how many other
people in this administration

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have been engaged in similar--

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who are implicated in this
behavior and in this plot,

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rather.

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And I think that's
part of the question

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that we're getting to
the bottom of today.

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It's not just Trump,
but who else is

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going to be implicated in this?

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And so I think when it comes
to what we've discovered,

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we're at the point of no return.

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And it's just a question
of how many crimes

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have been potentially
committed and who

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else has committed them.

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HUNTER WALKER: Now, when
we talked in El Paso,

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you said to me you
feel like we're headed

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towards fascism here in the US.

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I just heard something
similar from Al Green,

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and we've seen Colonel
Vindman under threats.

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He may have to move
to a military base.

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You've obviously been personally
singled out by this president.

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Do you think he's trying to
undermine the process at all?

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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I
think of course he's trying

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to undermine the processes.

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He's clearly engaged in
witness intimidation.

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He has clearly threatened
not just one ambassador,

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but it seems as more evidence
comes out, quite a few people

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who have testified, he has
questioned whether they

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can or should be fired.

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So there's clearly a
very disturbing pattern.

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I think the most clear
and disturbing of them

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all is the fact that
Stephen Miller has

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just been exposed as,
frankly, a neo-Nazi

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and a white supremacist.

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He was citing eugenics as
a rationale for our policy

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on the southern border.

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And Donald Trump
clearly thinks that--

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clearly believes
in eugenics, given

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the fact that he has
put and maintains

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Stephen Miller in a position of
power after these revelations.

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HUNTER WALKER: And I actually
also just talked to Al Green

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about that as well.

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I read the "Hatewatch" article.

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Do you think there's anything
Democrats in Congress

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can and should do
about Stephen Miller,

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a resolution,
moving to oust him?

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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ:
I think it's possible.

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We can discuss-- quite
a few members can,

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and quite a few committees
if they wanted to

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could bring up
hearings about this.

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Was our immigration policy,
particularly our policy

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at the border, inspired
by eugenics or white

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nationalism directly?

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Certainly through
Stephen Miller's emails,

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it seems like that was the case.

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I think we can hold
congressional hearings

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to see if US policy
was, in fact, guided

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by white supremacist
organizations.

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I think that's a very
severe question that we

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need to get to the bottom of.

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HUNTER WALKER:
Last one for you--

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do you see Stephen Miller
as a white nationalist?

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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ:
Absolutely.

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There's no question.

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And some folks on the right
tried to weaponize his identity

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as a rationale for why he
shouldn't, but it doesn't

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matter what color your skin is.

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If you are citing white
nationalist and neo-Nazi text,

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if you believe in eugenics,
if you have the values

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of a white
nationalist, the color

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of your skin or your last name
doesn't absolve you of that.

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That is who you are and what
you've chosen to embrace.

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