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Rep Lawler 'LUNATIC' Hasan Piker has NO PLACE in our politics · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, America. We're here with our friend, Congressman Mike Lawler.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to thank you for coming. You're also
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  Speaker 1: on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman, here's my question
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  Speaker 1: to you. You're in a tough district. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: leans Democrat, but you've got a lot of blue-collar workers,
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  Speaker 1: cops and firefighters, thank goodness. And you also have a
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  Speaker 1: bird's-eye view of what takes place in the city. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: in the city with Mondami. You famously, with Mike Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the speaker, confronted basically the rioters at Columbia and so
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  Speaker 1: forth very bravely. So here's my question to you. As
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  Speaker 1: you're watching all this and it affects your district and
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  Speaker 1: the people in your district, how do you think they
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  Speaker 1: feel about a Hassan Piker with the 25th anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 coming and this guy says we deserved it? Or
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  Speaker 1: the other outrageous things he says and but. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: one thing if he was a podcaster out there by himself,
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  Speaker 1: but he is literally embraced by the Democrats and the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Party. They're trying to play games and step back
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but he is them. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think the people in your district think about this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark, in my district, 50 percent of households have
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  Speaker 2: a cop, a firefighter, a veteran living in the household.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously, with the 25th anniversary of 9-11, my district,
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  Speaker 2: my community, my constituents were deeply impacted by what happened
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  Speaker 2: that day. And we are still losing people to 9-11
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  Speaker 2: health-related illnesses. And the fact that you have someone who
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  Speaker 2: is becoming in many respects, a spokesperson for the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party in Hassan Piker saying that America deserved 9-11 or
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  Speaker 2: that if you support Israel as a Jew in America,
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  Speaker 2: you should expect some type of violence against you. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this guy is absolutely insane. And yet, that's what's at stake, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: This is about common sense versus crazy, common sense versus communism.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is that the Democratic Party is quickly being
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  Speaker 2: taken over by these radical socialists. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Schumer are useless. They don't have a backbone. They don't
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  Speaker 2: stand for anything. If I asked you what is it
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  Speaker 2: that they're running on other than I hate Trump, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have a platform. They don't have policies that they're
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  Speaker 2: advocating for. If I asked you what is Zoran Mamdani, AOC,
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  Speaker 2: and Bernie Sanders and the DSA advocating for, you could
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  Speaker 2: rattle off 10 things easily. Defund the police. Abolish ICE.
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  Speaker 2: increased taxes by trillions of dollars, a government takeover of
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  Speaker 2: our health care system, sanctuary state policies. These are the
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  Speaker 2: things that they're advocating for. And by the way, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: my opponent, Kate Conley, who says she's a moderate, she
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  Speaker 2: supports a government takeover of health care. She supports Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hochul's disastrous new sanctuary state law that prohibits local law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement from turning over criminal illegal aliens to the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: She supports increasing taxes by $ 4 trillion. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the fact is, these are the policies that they are
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  Speaker 2: running on. The DSA platform is the mainstream of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party today. And there's only a handful of Democrats
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  Speaker 2: pushing back. Josh Gottheimer, one of my closest friends in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: has been the loudest voice pushing back against this insanity movement.
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  Speaker 2: within the Democratic Party, and especially around Hassan Piker. Josh
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  Speaker 2: and I introduced a resolution together condemning him, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope Congress will take it up. This lunatic has no
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  Speaker 2: place in our politics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh has stepped up, very impressively so, and a
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  Speaker 1: handful of other Democrats, Moskowitz and Fetterman and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: but very few. Richie Torres is another one who has
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  Speaker 1: spoken up. I mean, remarkable. He comes from a very
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  Speaker 1: tough district from my perspective. But all that said, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: The leadership of the Democrat Party, all they keep talking
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  Speaker 1: about is a big tent. Since when do you have
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  Speaker 1: a big tent? A big tent for Islamists who are
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  Speaker 1: talking about we deserve 9-11. Since when do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Let's talk about Medicare for all.
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  Speaker 1: would eliminate private health care. So all these cops and
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  Speaker 1: firefighters you have in your district, they would lose the
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  Speaker 1: health care that their unions have negotiated for, as would
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. Private health care is off the table. Those
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  Speaker 1: negotiated agreements are off the table. Illegal aliens will be
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  Speaker 1: taking Medicare the way the Democrats have pushed for them
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  Speaker 1: to be in Medicaid. It will break the back of Medicare.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to pursue that with you. The Democrats
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  Speaker 1: think they're onto a hot issue, Medicare for all. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: it really mean Medicare for none and the destruction of
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  Speaker 1: our health care system, much like Obamacare? We'll be right back.