Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, one of the 11 Americans sanctioned by China, joins 'Fox & Friends.'
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Research, no, that person didnt
think they went far enough
lets bring in Senator Tom
Cotton Member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee good
morning to you senator
good morning. Everyone
Ainsley whats your reaction to
this, and are we going to see
this in other police
departments around the country?
Well, Ainsley. I certainly
hope not because if you see
police chiefs retiring or
you see police officers
retiring early, if you see
liberals cutting police
budgets by defunding, the police
theyre, just the general dis
respect for the police,
youre going to see more of what
we saw in Chicago the other
night,
anarchists and rioters in the
street, destroying property
risking lives.
Unfortunately, weve seen that in
so many cities all around the
country this summer, whether
its Washington, New York,
Chicago Portland, Seattle, one
consistent thing, weve seen is
all these liberal mayors and
governors think they can reason
with these rioters, but in the
end, its not enough because
they want more and more and more,
they demand that the police be
defunded and they demand that
they continue to pullback from
our cities. And if that happens,
all you get is more violence and
more crime, and the victims are
innocent citizens.
Steve yeah, and you know you
give them an inch. They take a
mile, and you know senator when
you look at what chief best out
in Seattle was doing. She simply
wanted to enforce the law.
You know if people break the
law, if people burn
something down im going to
arrest them, but the people, or
at least somebody, was impacting
her and impressing upon her. You
cant. Do it like that right now
times have changed.
Senator times have changed.
A lot of these liberal
politicians live in fantasy land
and these police chiefs and
their police officers are simply
trying to enforce the law and
explain to them if you defund
the police, if you tell the
police to pullback from
certain neighborhoods, if you
just disrespect law enforcement
in general, youre going to get
more crime,
youre not going to appease
rioters in the street and,
unfortunately thats what were
continuing to see in so many of
our cities,
Brian and by the way, think
about Joe Bidens staffers.
They gave money to a fund to
help bail out, be accused
criminals who are charged one
charge of sexual assault.
Another one of stabbing a friend
in the Minneapolis. So not only
is Joe Biden really, not speaking
out, not saying much
more democratic mayors falling
flat on their face in times of
pair ill, but his staffers are
giving to a bailout fund
thats inexcusable, but lets
talk about who could be running
with the vice president.
You believe that Susan Rice,
Kamala Harris Karen Bass,
theyre all finalists Elizabeth
Warren is a finalist
you have the governor of
Michigan is a finalist.
Would Susan rice trouble you
well Brian Susan Rice was
the typhoid Mary of the Obama
administration policy. Every
major debacle in President Obama
s tenure. Susan rice, was
in the middle of
look at China. She consistently
councilled appeasement towards
China.
She demanded our military leader
s in the Pacific, not raise
chinas efforts to militarize
the south, China Sea and create
bases out of rocks in the water
to extend the range of their
planes and missiles.
She was right in the middle of
the IRAN Nuclear deal.
She councilled appeasement of
Russia going into the twenty sixteen
election and then after
the election, she was at the
center of spying on the Trump
campaign and unmasking american
citizens who had been caught up
in that
most nominees face. The jury of
the american people.
Susan rice be the first one to
potentially face a grand jury as
Well
Ainsley. You wrote this op ed on
Foxnews dot com. If folks want to
read it, but the title is China.
Sanctions wont affect me much,
but well never stop fighting
for Ccps victims. So China, we
sanction China, individuals in
China. Eleven Americans are
sanctioned by China and you are
one of them.
Why did you write this op, Ed and
whats the message?
Yeah Ainsley? I guess its
China sanction yesterday ill
have to cancel my long planned.
Second honeymoon
laughter,
but in the end, China is not
coming for me
im just in the way
im in the way of all the people.
I defend whether its the
millions of Americans who
have died or gotten sick or
lost their job because of the
Wuhan Coronavirus
or the millions of factory
workers whose jobs have been
sent to China or the millions
of chinese people, whether
theyre, Hong Kongers or wegers,
in Northwest China who
are facing a high tech communist
tyranny.
China is sanctioning me because
I am standing up to that
communist tyranny and if
XI, Jinping and the Chinese
Communist Party think what ive
done so far warrants a sanction.
Let me just say they aint seen
nothing yet
Steve. Well, there you go a
warning.
Thank you very much, Senator Tom
cotton for joining us today.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-11.