what they were yelling in terms of my skin color or my race, and i know i m an american soldier and former soldier and a police officer. back with me now congressman ilhan omar, who is also an immigrant, if i might. her new book called this is what america looks like, my journey from refugee to congresswoman. thanks for staying with us. on the book and the journey you take i look at officer gonell s story, similar to yours in some ways, the embodiment of what many call the american dream, and yet he almost lost his life simply by choosing public service. you ve had a target on your back since joining congress, and you ve become something of a boogieman for the right. i want to read from your new book. you said, quote, as much as americans on one side of the aisle thought i was some kind of hero there were others on the others who believed i was just the devil. just as my office was inundated we appearances and interview
and former soldier and a police officer. back with me now congressman ilhan omar who is also an immigrant, if i might. her new book called this is what america looks like, my journey from refugee to congresswoman. thanks for staying with us. on the book and the journey you take i look at officer gonell s story, similar to yours in some way. the embodiment of what many call the american dream and yet he almost lost his life simply by choosing public service. you ve had a target on your back since joining congress, and you ve become something of a boogieman for the right. i want to read from your new book. you said, quote, as much as americans on one side of the aisle thought i was some kind of hero there were others on the others who believed i was just the devil. just as my office was inundated with appearances and interview requests from our first day, we also received countless hate calls, mail and e-mails. i m curious, congresswoman, what that s like for you on a
might be suburban voters. might be allies on any number of these issues who don t understand the sea they re swimming in anymore. ask people who work in organizations where they re making good faith efforts toward d.e.i. work, where they struggled. it leaves people with lots of questions and disagreements within a party. i think there s a difference between biden. i think kirsten is right but he attacked left. i don t think he s become fundamental left. he knows he has to deal with the fallout of rising crime. this is a party that should be right now wanting to run on a very strong post covid response and post covid economy. they don t want to be dragged into this. again, i ll agree with kirsten s parsing of this, but i m not sure that s how people are taking it all in, where they understand what s the boogieman and what s not. the left will say let s not
even though they re both italian. there is nothing wrong with being italian. what i am saying is this. i m asking a different question. chris, let me talk just for a minute because it s your show. you ever been talking a lot, to be honest. but go ahead. well, that s what being a guest is. you get to talk. it s a conversation. two people talk in a conversation. go ahead. fair enough and i and i respect the fact that you have me on. but my point to you is the following, which is don t act like there s not a legitimate claim when you have an election that s one we ve never had before with all these mailed-in ballots. don t act like it s outrageous for republicans and conservatives, and people who like trump, to be un be really question this case of why didn t we vote the same way we voted in 2016, where everyone who voted by mail, you had to verify that you were a legal voter. in 2020, we simply didn t do that in these cities. but we should do that. do you agree? we sh
we voted in 2016 where everyone who voted by mail, you had to verify that you were a legal voter. in 2020, we simply didn t do that in these cities. but do you agree we should do that? of course, you should follow the rules. what i am saying is you are creating a boogieman. you know and i know that georgia looked at 10,000 ballots. they found ten signatures that didn t match. and then, they, later, found out that they were okay. the facts aren t in your favor. what i don t get is that s not true. chris, you re not right. chris. chris, stop. why are you making cpac about the big lie and not all the other things you could argue? cpac. the title and the theme of cpac is america uncanceled. but what are you cancelling? the truth? it s a nice, little sleight. now, let me talk. the whole idea with cpac is this idea that the federal government came in and said, because of the pandemic, that we couldn t have churches open. we couldn t have schools open.