Rep. Jonathan Jackson Calls for Pete Hegseth Impeachment ... Then Botches Vote

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11 Democrats accidentally missed the Pete Hegseth impeachment vote,
but I don't think
it was any accident,
because I saw one of them there at the vote with time to spare.
Rep Jonathan Jackson tweeted out
that several members had missed the vote because of a traffic
jam.
Had that traffic jam not been there, they would have made the vote.
They would have won the vote, in fact, but they lost it.
Because of that traffic jam, says rep Jonathan Jackson.
But I saw Jonathan Jackson
on the steps after I interviewed AOC at 5.55pm
and it ended a couple minutes later on the steps, I saw him.
I saw Jonathan Jackson filming
a social media video about the Hegseth impeachment
and that would have
been at about 5.57, 5.58pm.
The Hegseth impeachment vote didn't close until 6.05pm
and he was on the steps, like that's where
the vote is, just go inside the door, you're right there.
So what happened in that time I don't know
but this traffic jam thing,
it's not the truth or it's not the whole truth or it's, he could have
made the vote. Rep Jonathan Jackson could have made the vote,
he didn't make the vote. I don't
know why he didn't make the vote
but I just think that this traffic jam nonsense is nonsense.
I just got off the phone with Rep Jackson
who agrees with my timeline and remembers seeing me,
remembers talking to me. So I asked like, well,
why didn't you make the vote then? You were right
there. And all he could say to me was it was a mistake.
He said it was a mistake. He goes,
I'm taking accountability. I messed up my times.
I'm embarrassed. He goes, I'll accept the
consequences of this, but it was a mistake.
And I say, well, what was the mistake?
Like, why didn't you make the vote?
You had seven minutes from the Capitol steps
to walk 13 steps to press the button to vote.
Why couldn't you walk those steps?
He wouldn't elaborate.
He goes, mistake, leave it at that.
It's on me.
I mean, he claims that's him taking accountability.
I wish he'd take more accountability
because clearly, clearly.
The whole traffic jam thing wasn't the reason he didn't vote.
He was there, he could have voted, he didn't vote.
He wouldn't tell me why not.
He wouldn't tell me what happened in those minutes
where he could have pressed the button,
he could have got Hegseth impeached further to it,
he wouldn't tell me why.
Make a mistake, he said he made a mistake.
I think that's, it's not good enough.
It's just not good enough.
If this guy is the war criminal you say he is,
if this guy is as dangerous to America and our
soldiers out there as you claim he is, it's got to be better than that.
You've got to tell the truth.
You've got to tell people,
your constituents who have put you there to make these votes, what did
you do with those seven odd minutes that you
were on the Capitol steps walking up? What were you
doing there? He didn't vote. He could have voted.
It was a choice. It wasn't a traffic jam.
