and i just was upset seeing my community up in flames. reporter: rittenhouse is being hailed as a hero in other corners of the far right with republican congress members matt gaetz, lauren boebert, and madison hawthorne competing with each other to offer rittenhouse internships on capitol hill. kyle rittenhouse would make a good intern. madison hawthorne, he said he would arm wrestle me for this kyle rittenhouse intern shift. but madison hawthorne has some pretty big guns. so i would like to challenge him to a sprint instead. reporter: congressman hawthorne uses a wheelchair. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is also jumping in pushing a bill to award rittenhouse a congressional gold medal which has been bestowed on people like george washington, nelson mandela, winston churchill, and the wright brothers. he stands as an icon on the far right as someone who pushed back against the black lives matter movement, and he stands as someone who s sort of stands
rittenhouse s claim of self-defense. that was prosecutorial misconduct. he should not have had to suffer through a trial for that. he was going to be dead. if he didn t pull that trigger, kyle would have been dead. reporter: but even trump didn t gush over rittenhouse as blatantly as fox host tucker carlson did in rittenhouse s first interview since his acquittal. kyle rittenhouse struck us as bright, decent, sincere, dutiful, and hard working, exactly the kind of person you would want many more of in your country. for his part, rittenhouse said he was simply trying to protect businesses from rioters. kenosha is my community. um, and i just was upset seeing my community up in flames. reporter: rittenhouse is being hailed as a hero in other corners of the far right, with republican congress members matt gaetz, lauren boebert, and madison cawthorn competing with each other to possibly offer rittenhouse internships on capitol hill. kyle rittenhouse would probably make a pret
party lines. on the right, they re heralding kyle rittenhouse as a hero. this verdict seen as a victory for gun rights and self-defense. now, some republican congressmen are even offering kyle rittenhouse internships, include including madison cawthorne, mark richards, one attorney for the defense attorney for kyle rittenhouse said that he is disgusted by those trying to capitalize on the teen s newfound celebrity. now, democratic lawmakers are expressing their outrage and some are even calling for federal charges against rittenhouse. representative jerry nadler tweeted, this heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by the department of justice. justices cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines, looking for trouble, while people engage in first amendment
professionals: lawmakers have already offered rittenhouse internships, and he has been framed by some as a hero. americans saw what they wanted to see, what did the domestic violence extremists wrong them see in for that, frank figliuzzi joins us. the rev is still here. frank, i wanted to know what sorts of worries folks in law enforcement would have about the messages, as maya, and the rev have been talking about, that might be received based on rittenhouse s acquittal? i had a column for msnbc daily come out earlier this week. said this. i am not as focused on the verdict as our response to it and the repercussions of it. that was monday when we had no idea what the outcome would be. from my security lens, what i