gosar, he was censured and matt gaetz is under investigation for sex trafficking by the fbi and that s the kind of people we re talking about here. there s a couple ways i look at this is that, one, you saw other members commenting. jim jordan commented on this. talking about the second amendment issue and they re trying to that there s a number of conservatives trying to wrap themselves this is a second amendment issue. this is a right to protect yourselves arm yourself and protect yourself. they re talking about blm here. this was a protest over the shooting of an unarmed black man. that s where this rittenhouse case started. he wasn t even he s not even from the state where this happened. so i think it s they re trying to they re trying to use it as a second amendment issue. the other issue that doesn t get enough people aren t talking about it enough, this is about power in wisconsin and wisconsin
as i said last year, obviously self-defense. i will arm wrestle matt gaetz to get dibs for kyle as an intern. go ahead, michael. i don t know how good of a look it is to see matt gaetz soliciting a teenager to work in his office or any republican talking about wrestling a teenager, but you know, the weird thing is first of all, he didn t graduate from high school so the republicans are falling all over a guy who could be replaced by we just saw a report from congressional interns about how white congressional interns are, how white congressional staffs are. like the fact that they re just falling over themselves to illicit this guy who did nothing extraordinary except kill some people is puzzling to me and it is indicative of where the
criminal charges he faced. the gop s caucus is fighting over who gets to hire him as a congressional intern. kyle may end up needing that job after all as legal experts predict he could face civil lawsuits from the loved ones of the two men he killed. joining me now, michael hair yot, contributing columnist and john breznehan and maria-teresa kumar, thank you all very much for being here. michael, i want to start with you. we played that clip of congressman matt gaetz saying he d be a great congressional intern, but i want to put up this tweet from recently censured congressman paul gosar and what he had to say responding to matt gaetz where he tweets justice was served and he is fully exonerated.
republican congressman adam kinzinger he tweeted now is a good time for kyle rittenhouse to turn his life around. i would certainly hope he does not become a prop for those who would like to abuse him for political gain, then throw him out. i believe in redemption. okay. yet, you know, i mentioned congres congressman gaetz and cawthorn. you also have paul gosar thrilled to jump in on this after being censured and stripped of his committees, right, for threatening another member with death. tweeted a response to that gaetz offering an internship, i will arm wrestle matt gaetz to get dibs for kyle as an intern. so they are in a sense making it into a sick a sick game. but how how does rittenhouse not become a right-wing prop and really fulfill every narrative that both sides have at this point? the best thing that i read about this case was a couple days ago in the atlantic, david french wrote it and in anticipation of a potential
here is republican congressman madison cawthorn on in video oven instagram. you have a right to defend yourselves, be armed, be dangerous and be moral. notice on the screen he also offers kyle rittenhouse an internship. something, republican congressman matt gaetz did yesterday as well even before the verdict was read. kyle rittenhouse will probably make a pretty good congressional intern. we may reach out to him and see if he would be interested in helping the country in in additional ways. and on the democratic side, congresswoman rashida tlaib tweeting our justice system is broken, it protects white supremacy. julian castro tweeting you know damn well that if kyle rittenhouse were black, he would have been found guilty in a heartbeat or shot dead by cops on the scene. so, everybody doing exactly what, you know, you d expect sadly. outfront now, michael smerconish, most host of cnn s su