On CNN, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) tore into President Trump after his shocking comments about the Constitution.
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00:01Congressman, the president won't commit to upholding the Constitution,
00:05but also says he relies on his lawyers and that they'll obey the Supreme Court.
00:09How do you reconcile that?
00:11You don't reconcile it.
00:13Trump has never agreed to follow the Constitution.
00:16And you just have to understand this.
00:18Look, you as an American voter can support Donald Trump,
00:21but you can't support Donald Trump and the Constitution.
00:25He forgot his oath the minute he took it.
00:28And it's the same oath, by the way, that I took as a United States Marine,
00:31that every veteran has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
00:36Imagine if you went up to an army private and said,
00:39do you actually intend to uphold your oath?
00:41And he said, I don't know.
00:42Or you went up to a police officer on the street and said,
00:44hey, you just got sworn as a police officer.
00:46Are you going to uphold the law?
00:48And he said, I don't know.
00:50That's what the president of the United States is telling everyone in the world today.
00:55I mean, in your mind, I assume some will argue, well, look, he was trolling his critics or he was just,
01:00you know, sort of batting away the question by saying, I don't know.
01:04You actually believe he either doesn't know or isn't interested in upholding the Constitution?
01:11No, I don't believe that he doesn't know.
01:14I believe that he's not interested, that he's not interested in upholding the Constitution.
01:18He's not interested in upholding the law.
01:21Do you believe the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment applies to all individuals
01:25physically inside the borders of the United States as opposed to citizens only?
01:29That's what everyone has said, you know, and that's what the Constitution is pretty clear about.
01:35And it could be that everyone before us was wrong, Anderson.
01:39Every president was wrong. Every member of Congress was wrong.
01:42And Donald Trump is just so brilliant that this guy who went around the country bankrupting casinos just got constitutional law better than the rest of us.
01:53Or it could be that Trump is not following the law based on his history, based on his criminal history.
02:01Which do you think is the case?
02:03We just did a story earlier tonight about the president's cryptocurrency ventures.
02:07Not only is he a major cryptocurrency seller and will be profiting in his family members as well, his entire family, it seems.
02:15He's also running the government that regulates it.
02:17How big a concern do you think this is?
02:20Because I feel like it hasn't gotten a lot of attention until recently.
02:24No, it hasn't gotten a lot of attention, Anderson, because he's doing so many other bad things that are potentially even more dangerous.
02:30In this case, he's just profiting off of his position, something that under any other president would have been a huge cause for alarm.
02:39Of course, this is exactly the charge he made against Biden, even though he could never substantiate it.
02:44But the reality is that Trump and his family are profiting seriously off of this.
02:49And I think that over time, we're going to see that this is a very corrupt administration, not just a lawless one.
02:57It's just that when he's actually breaking the laws and putting people's lives in danger, it's an even more urgent concern.
03:04And that's why that's the focus right now.
03:06I want to ask you about the Turkish student at Tufts University taken into custody by by mass plainclothes officers on the street in your home state of Massachusetts going back back in March.
03:16Her she's still being detained. It's believed to stem from an op ed she co wrote in a student newspaper urging the school to divest from entities with ties to Israel.
03:26Now, an appeals court panel, they're scheduled to hear arguments about her status tomorrow. Do you know anything more about her fate?
03:32No. And we've been asking a lot of questions, the delegation in Massachusetts, so many people who are concerned about her and concerned about everyone else who might write an op ed someday disagreeing with the Trump administration and could find themselves whisked off the street.
03:49If you look at this video, Anderson, it doesn't look like something that could happen in America. It looks like a video from China or North Korea or Iran.
03:58But that's the streets of America. And that's the country that Donald Trump is trying to make for all of us.
04:04And just lastly, the Wall Street journals, they're reporting tonight that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, in their words, used signal more extensively for official Pentagon business than previously disclosed.
04:13The journal went on to say that engaging in at least a dozen separate chats, people familiar with his management practices said in one case, he told the aides on the encrypted app to inform foreign governments about an unfolding military operation.
04:26The people said, again, that's according to the journal CNN hasn't independently cooperated it. Do you have any reason to think this will make any change in his job security?
04:39It doesn't seem to. It seems that Trump wants to keep Hegseth around. If Trump is breaking the law, he likes to surround himself with other lawbreakers. And Pete Hegseth is clearly breaking the law.
04:50He has no accountability for his own behavior. He said he was going to bring accountability back to the Department of Defense. Well, apparently that doesn't apply to him. And as a result, we have a secretary of defense who is himself a risk to our national security.
05:06Congressman Seth Moulton, thanks for your time.
05:09Good to see you, Anderson.