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Scalise calls on Democrats to tone down rhetoric: 'People are afraid'

2021-01-14 | 🔗
Rep. Steve Scalise says focusing on a second Trump impeachment only makes matters worse in a country that's already deeply divided.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
My prayers, Madam speaker, still with Capitol police officer, Sicknick and Leefn good, who we lost, as well as all of the capitol police officers who risked their lives to keep us safe. They are true heroes and they deserve all of our applause. Today I have seen the dark evil of political violence firsthand and it needs to stop. But all of us need to be unequivocal in calling it out every single time. We see it Brian. Absolutely. The person who shot Steve Scalise was a Bernie Sanders supporter. I dont know anybody, and nor should they have blamed Bernie Sanders for that lets bring in house Minority WHIP, Steve Scalise congressman. You wrote an op ed about that. You spoke about that yesterday and you did not vote for impeachment. Neither did Kevin Mccarthy, Kevin Mccarthy did come out and say the president played a role in this. This does not mean the president is free from fault.
The president bears responsibility and should denounce the mob and facts require immediate action. He said the president should be censured for his speech, I guess and for the crowd he told to March you dont. Do you disagree with Kevin on that? First of all, good morning, Steve Good Morning, what I talked about was that any rejection of this kind of violence needs to be unequivocal. You cant say: well this happened, but you have got to say it is wrong. Anybody who resorts to violence, we have called it out by the way. Last week what happened was an insurrection. The people that stormed the capitol that attacked our capitol police over fifty capitol police officers were injured. In that attack, I mean, if you are going over police officers and crawling through windows, you are not a guest in a building anymore. You have literally violated the law, many of them have already been caught and they are being arrested, as needs to be the case, but what we didnt see- and this
is really the point I was making- was- that we call it out when it happens on both sides. When you see all of these Democrats that are only calling it out now, they did not call it out during the summer. In fact, some of them were encouraging some of the violence we saw over the summer, fanning those flames you cant, have it both ways. You have got to be consistenty calling out violence. None of us should support that Brian. Do you differ from Kevin Mccarthy are on that supporting censor and the president is not free from fault. Well, there is no censure before the Congress. All they brought forward was impeachment, which I opposed one of the things we also called for, and we actually pushed a vote on this yesterday- was to get an actual commission to look into what happened at every angle. There has been no investigation into this. They literal I did an impeachment without even a hearing in committee. Thats never happened in the history of our country. If they really wanted the facts and they think the facts are on their side, they would have done that and held a hearing and gotten all of this out there,
because we know by the way the Senate is not even going to take it up at the earliest until the first or 20th next week. So there was time to have hearings; they didnt want that they just want to keep ratcheting up the rhetoric and what I have talked about is we need to be focused on toning down the rhetoric right now, because people are afraid when you talk to the you know. Folks, all around the country people are very much on edge. We need to ratchet the rhetoric down Steve right and the seventy four million Americans who voted for Donald Trump. What they saw yesterday broke their heart. Ultimately, he was impeached for a second time, but impeachment congressman Scalise is all about removing somebody, an official from office. By the time the Senate gets around to this, the president will be the former president. I know they dont really like the President of the United States on the democratic side, but wouldnt couldnt Joe Biden be a real uniter. If he said you know what Senate
Donald Trump is out of office, he is never going to run again. Lets move on lets pick up. My agenda lets get my people confirmed to the by the Senate, and things like that lets turn the page. I think there is a moment for Joe Biden to do that, and I think that in and of itself would cause some more healing, but to again just to keep going after this president. Over and over again when they know he is going to be out of office by the time its even taken up by the Senate. The country wants to heal the country and again there are millions of people that are disgusted by what they saw last week at the capitol, but they are also angry with four years of a constant barrage against of a constant barrage against this president, all of the russian hoax. What the FBI did to entrap him, some agents at the FBI during the election, the impeachment homosexual.
It was just every single day- Nonending Ba run a for four years, its its weighed on millions and millions of people disgusted by last week, but disgusted by last four years accumulated all of that has come together in a situation in our country. That need need to be focused on diffusing, not continuing to add gas reason to a fire Ainsley. What was your reaction when you heard there were going to be ten Republicans who were going to vote for impeachment there? They are. If you look at the stories earlier this week, they were sayings, it was going to be a tsunami. Literally a number of publications said it was going to be a tsunami that was their word. They used of Republicans voting for it. I never saw that it was always going to be a very small close to nine and twelve members thats, where we ended up at the end of the day. You know you saw a lot of members who just said this is enough. I mean lets focus on turning the page lets focus on moving on and
thats going to happen next week on the 20th when Joe Biden is sworn in as president. You know, this is only going to make matters worse in a country. Thats deeply deeply divided right now, Brian no kidding the Good NEWS is Democrats are deal with you. There is only a ten seat difference between the two. She does not have a united caucus. Hopefully there will be.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-14.