i don t need you correcting my question, sir. i am asking, did you watch the testimony of the capitol officers who defended our lives on january 6th or did you not? it s a yes-or-no question. it s irrelevant. absolutely irrelevant to this they were asked the question by several of our colleagues, including miss cheney, about statements that you made saying that the january 6th violent insurrection against congress was akin to a normal tourist visit. and those officers said they weren t tourists. they were terrorists. do you stand by your statement, that they were tourists? um, i would like you to quote my exact statement. not your interpretation of my statement. okay. watching the tv footage of those who entered the capitol and
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Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for keeping Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee.
Gowdy made an appearance Friday with Fox News host Harris Faulkner to discuss the recent revelation that a Chinese spy had gotten close to Swalwell as he worked his way from city council to Congress so close that Swalwell has claimed that the details of their relationship are “classified.”
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Faulkner began the segment with a clip of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has questioned whether Swalwell should be allowed to remain on the Intelligence Committee after being linked to an alleged Chinese spy.
i think we are going to have an investigation. it s a nonpartisan investigation. it s a yes-or-no question. it s an answer that you get. is it okay for you you know what i said before. we want to hear from you, you re a smart guy. this is about the politics of the moment, and that s why they re trying to do this. he just will not answer the question, and he s not the only republican who can answer or won t answer that simple question. one of the reporters there said he dodged it a total of a dozen times. it s a simple question, about something that the president of the united states has said on the white house lawn. he can try to make it about impeachment but this is a simple question about whether the president s request publicly was appropriate or not and this comes back to the very tricky position that republicans in swing districts and swing states are in. they cannot offer any indication, any hint that the president acted inappropriately or they will hear it. t
comes to mulvaney, at least. i mean, i think that it s really clear that every single individual agency the president touches goes into the mud. and that is true with mulvaney. it s true with pompeo. i had frankly forgotten that rick perry was even in the administration until the last couple of weeks. i m sure he was fine with that. now he s been subpoenaed. let me show you the position trump s put elected officials in. this is senator gardner. do you believe it s appropriate for the president of the united states to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? yes or no? if this is what we re going to get into, the senate intelligence committee is having a bipartisan investigation. unfortunately though what we ve seen is a very political process take over. but the question is, is it appropriate for look, we are going to have an investigation. it s a nonpartisan investigation. it s a yes-or-no question. that went on for four
public record. do you think that homosexuality or homosexual conduct should be illegal today? that s a yes-or-no question. homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes. the rhetorical part of the civil war, brother against brother, north against south, party against party, what s changed? now we got blacks and whites fighting, rich and yellow fighting, democrats and republicans fighting, men and women fighting. i think they can holler political question all they wish, but it s a simple fact that if he s not a natural born citizen, he s not qualified to be president, and i don t care who he is. we have a birther. well, look. he s a live birther. in addition to the president,