congressman gaetz surely didn't read that law before he wrote that tweet, and congressman gaetz is not a member of any of the committees that will be questioning michael cohen this week. so what does that threat mean? did congressman gaetz engage in a conspiracy with other members of congress who are on those committees to threaten michael cohen? is that tweeted threat coordinated in a conspiracy with other congressmen who are on those committees who will then ask michael cohen the questions that congressman gaetz is threatening in his tweet? are they also complicit in what could be a federal crime? here's what congressman gaetz told reporters about his threatening tweet. >> we already know that michael cohen lies to congress. we already know that michael cohen lies to law enforcement. now we're going to find out if michael cohen lies to his own family. >> because, i mean, if a guy lies to his own family that does it, right? in congressman gaetz's world, who's not currently married, is obviously going to make the case if michael cohen has ever lied to his family, anyone in his family h

gaetz said that tweet was not witness tampering but witness testing. the thing gat's tweet seems to ignore is it was meant to be a threat or intended to make people sort of clutch their pearls. you just have to look no further than the president's own alleged conduct. all the pearls are taken. there is no pearl necklace anymore. when cohen testifies tomorrow, yeah, it'll be a known lawyer who lied for another known liar because the liar told him to lie and paid him to lie. you can also argue the liller doesn't actually have to lie anymore because he's already been convicted of lying and he's heading to prison. how much more does he really have to lose? chief white house correspondent jim acosta is in hanoi with the president. he joins us now. what are you hearing about the mood of white house staffers who are in vietnam ahead of the con hearing? because no matter what happens in vietnam tomorrow, this cohen testimony is going to be the story of the day. >> reporter: well, publicly, anderson, they're claiming that they're not worried about michael cohen

. >> gaetz did today? >> oh, i thought you mont the whole process. this was in this new reality of overt man ifestations of obnoxious political behaviors, this ranks high. but matt gaetz is developing a little bit of a persona of being a provocateur. he's a little bit like a baby trump in that regard. he knows if he is provocative, it gets him attention. and it gets him noticed and it distinguishes him. and let me tell you, he's got a lot of friends in the white house. he's got a lot of love in the white house. so do i think that he was trying to chill michael cohen? no, i do not. i think he was trying to get attention and he go it. >> i think it's both. >> do i think it will have any effect on cohen? i think it has no effect. >> i think it's both. i think it's, don't worry, man, i got this, i got this, wait until you see this. of course. i know there's all kinds of -- i can only imagine, all kinds of talking and everybody's in cahoots and -- >> why wouldn't you say that when the president does it? >> it's really disgusting. i've never seen anything

and whatever you think of gaetz, he's not in charge of the justice department. the president charge of the justice department and has threatened cohn's father-in-law with prosecution. so the columbo-gemovese. >> i assume you're not immune from prosecution for threatening a witness testifying before congress either in open or closed session, right? >> you're not, but i think it would be difficult for the justice department to pursue this and not pursue the president and, you know, i just don't think that's going to happen. >> the justice department says they can't charge a sitting president but they can charge a sitting member of the house of representatives. >> and at a minimum the ethics committee to look into this because this is what they're supposed to do. >> the house ethics committee. >> the house ethics committee. >> matt gaetz said this. >> it's witness testing when people come before the congress with an attempt to perpetuate their continuous lies, we have an opportunity and perhaps an obligation to test who those people lie to. we know michael cohen li

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what is gaetz afraid of? i lay it before you. >> a question right now, what is house minority leader kevin mccarthy do with congressman gaetz? is he going to allow one of his members to be out there on a limb saying this thing about a witness appearing before a house committee. and can they draw blood politically with mr. cohen? can they keep the focus at this hearing, can they walk through different issues to try and draw it out? they have to make sure they're concentrating on cohen's conduct but also president trump's conduct. they're not going to be able to veer into russian issues. as a reporter we all wish we could ask mr. cohen about trump tower moskow, about interaction with different russian figures. so the democrats have to pick their spots. can they actually illicit new information that's both credible and politically earth shattering to try and move the ball politically on president trump and the investigation. >> and maya, you're our lawyer here. if you were starting a case in federal court tomorr

let me put up the matt gaetz tweet. the three amigos of jim jordan, mark meadows and matt gaetz. hey michael cohen 212, do your wife and father in law know about your girlfriends. maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she'll remain faithful. she is about to learn a lot. that is a sitting member of congress. i imagine you still consider yourself a conservative. as a conservative, watching all of this, where would you vote on this national emergency if you were a member of congress? >> you have to vote against the president. i don't think there is any question. >> i think the president is going to lose the vote in the senate. >> not veto-proof? >> no, but enough will vote against him that it sends a snal. at the end of the day, people know in their gut where this stand stands. you saw many others. you cannot get from where we are now and go back in time and think about the times that republicans were against what president obama did and not think it's hypocritical. i think that's going to trouble a lot of the republicans. >> as the resident mitch mcconnell -

what is gaetz afraid of?" i lay it before you. >> a question right now, what id house minority leader kevin mccarthy do with congressman n gaetz?wi is he going to allow one of his members to be out there on a limb saying this kind of thing about a witness appearing before a house committee. s also a challenge for democrats tomorrow. can they draw blood politically with mr. cohen? can they keep it focused at this hearing? can they walkth through differe issues to try to draw cohen out? because remember, they have to makere sure they're concentrati on cohen's conduct but also president trump's conduct. they're not going to be able to veer into russia issues.um as a reporter we all wish we could ask mr. cohen about trumpe tower moscow, about different interaction with russianer figures.n but because of the mueller investigation those areas have been walled off.ue so the democrats have to pick their spots. can they actually elicit new information that's both credible and politically earth shattering to try and mov

matt gaetz put that tweet out where he launched those allegations against cohen.outcry you're hearing already. is that tweet what congressman gaetz is saying on twitter, is that something the ethics committee might at all be interested in some way. >> i would start by reminding your viewers that federal law protects witnesses from the intimidation and attempted intimidation by others. with respect to the ethics committee by dhaur, i can't talk about what may come before the committee. what that tweet reminded me of was when the colleague down played the importance of the potential sexual abuse of kids being held in detention facilities. it also reminded me frank laof his behavior a couple week withes ago when he tried to get fathers whose kids were gunned down at a high school thrown out of my hearing room. this is the type of behavior we're talking about and it's unfortunately been fairly consistent. >> you mentioned that the house judiciary did have a hearing on the trump administration's policy of forcibly -- and they released documents showing over the past fo

these days everybody knows him that way. >> have you heard from representative gaetz? hear from him. let me tell you something, i can't wait for this name to be out of my story. the real name i'm concerned about is joaquin oliver. i never heard before about him. i haven't heard from him. i don't need to. the whole nation listened to him and that's enough. >> you were a guest at the state of the union address and the president did bring up gun violence at the state of the union twice. once talking about illegal immigrants utilizing guns and also about the horrific massacre we saw at the tree of life synagogue. we didn't hear about the parkland students and i wonder what your message is for the president and the nation on gun violence. >> it's not that we didn't hear about the parkland shooting. it mentioned he wouldn't have time enough to do that on the one night. but he didn't mention the word guns. he didn't mention the common element in all of these shootings which is the gun itself and why this is happening. why are we okay with this? why is it fine when the gun lob

and gaetz deleting the first post and posting another one. while it's important to create context around liars like michael cohen it was not my intent to threaten as some believe i did. let me just give you a little context. initially, he sent up that tweet. his spokesperson said that tweet speaks for itself. >> that's right. >> gaetz went before cameras. was unapologetic. clearly the wheels spun and someone in leadership got to him then the apology. >> let's talk to michael cohen. we've made a mashup of sounds of things the president has said about michael cohen, showing how close he was to the president. what a fierce supporter he was of the president, listen. >> i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. president-elect trump to the best of my ability. i protect mr. trump. i'll do anything to protect mr. trump. i'm obviously very loyal and dedicated to mr. trump. >> you know, he was a constant supporting the president during the campaign. you see him behind the president. always there, a fixture around the president. clearly th

gaetz reconsidered his tweets finally in front of the house floor and cameras and twitter only after speaker nancy pelosi posted, i encourage all members to be mindful comments made on social media or in the press can

florida congressman matt gaetz. he tweeted yesterday evening.eeted yesterday evening g aetz denied his tweet could be construed to witness tampering, called it witness testing. tampering, testing? >> is that a new legal term? >> i think so nancy pelosi posted -- o nancy pelosi posted - gaetz delete that tweet. wrote -- it was not my intent to threaten. i should have chosen better words to show my intent. i am sorry. >> keeping it classy. >>> former attorney general matthew whitaker has agreed to clarify his testimony on whether president trump sought to influence the committee. jerry nadler added the former acting attorney general had voluntarily decided to speak on his testimony to the panel earlier this month. whitaker is expected to meet with the committee privately and no date for the new meeting has been announced. while lawmakers have not said what whitaker will address with his new testimony, it is expected to be focused on his previous comments on whether he had contact with the president about the investigation into business dealings in

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pelosi. >> i am glad that representative gaetz deleted the tweet.otional time for people at both parties. you have so many democrats who want to see the president fail and so many republicans want to see the president succeed. hopefully we'll keep it in check and find some element of the truth about michael cohen. did you see that tweet from congressman gaetz as a threat witness intimidation? this is on the eve of his testimony as a critically important witness before your committee. >> i see tweets from members of both parties that would be suspicious in my mind as to why they would tweet something like that. unfortunately, things like that happen but congressman gaetz is not apart of the committee today so it don't matter much. you will see professionalism on the parts of the republicans on the oversight committee. we have serious questions of michael cohen. the fact that he's a soul witness and the fact that he lied once to congress and he's a convicted felon who was disbarred this week from the new york bar. the credibility factor with michael c

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matt gaetz and rudy giuliani is calling him a liar, a rat and scum. he never explained the president would keep someone who's a liar or a scum for ten years. what did he expect him to do? >> what's a rat? >> a rat is a term that a criminal organization uses for someone that turns against him. a rat in the vernacular that rudy giuliani uses, he prosecuted a lot of mobsters so it is unusual for him to use that term. a rat is someone who breaks the code. it is a term that the mob uses. it is bizarre for trump's lawyer to say he's a rat. this guy knew stuff and he has stuff on us and he's going out there and telling everyone about it. >> he does have a lot of information, he talked to him all the way through the election and into the white house. he does have a lot of information. >> this is what you do everyday. we sit here and people talk about well, it was a porn star or whatever sm-- a lot of this information came from him, aboarding air force one, lying, and the fbi confiscating the records of michael cohen. a lot of this information especially the s

matt gaetz a busy night. thank you for making the case.ciate it. >> happy valentine's day. >> you as well. that's the politics on this. people are against and saying they're for. the law will have a role here. more than ordinary in politics. there is an act of congress. if he declaring a national emergency. there's other statutory language. it's not the end of the fact analysis. i have it laid out for you, next. t-mobile knows dancing is better when you include a partner. singing is better when you include a friend. and unlimited is better with a phone included. it's true. forty bucks with the other guys, doesn't include a phone. so, start the new year right. join t-mobile and get unlimited with a phone included for just forty dollars per line. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? you won't find relief her

you're going to get the opportunity to ask him questions, obviously congressman gaetz is not.et? do you know what he's talking about? >> i don't know what he's talking about specifically and i can't tell you what he was thinking by doing the tweet. he's not a shy guy and that's all i can say about it really. >> i mean, you know, i guess my reaction to you is you're going to be asking questions, he's not. are you frustrated that he's wading in and doing this? what is this -- he says it's witness testing, not witness tampering. >> i don't know what the legal standard is. it's not the kind of thing that i think members of congress should be doing. certainly not something i would ever do. i don't think it's particularly helpful to what we're trying to do tomorrow. >> so obviously the question is what you're going to be asking tomorrow, making it clear you wouldn't ask anything along those lines. what are you going to be asking? >> so i just want to get to the truth. we'd like to find out whether he knows anything about illegality during this administration and let's get to the tru

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after that exchange gaetz asked that the fathers be removed. jerry nadler allowed them to stay.ll us what you saw there and how this played out. >> reporter: it was a really emotional hearing on gun violence. of course what you saw there, matt gaetz, a republican from florida, the same state where the parkland shooting happened that killed 17 people. he was arguing basically for a border wall to stop gun violence. that sparked the two fathers to get up and emotionally push back against the now, this is exactly what maxwell oliver had to say about the exchange to cnn this morning. >> don't bring the wall as a solution for everything. it is pretty offensive that you are number one, i don't think you're qualified for this and number two you're asking us to waste time. you're wasting time from us to really go ahead and solve the problem. that's when i was able to stand up and say don't forget about us and our kids. >> now, of course gates had asked for those two men to be removed. jerry reminded the audience they were not to interrupt members during the hearing. there was even more

it's witness texting. >> reporter: meanwhile, cohen's atrney calling gaetz comments lies and personal smears. cohen will be back here for public testimony. ar tonight we're ng that cohen has officially been disbarred for his felony convictions. lester? r >> kristen welve at the capitol, thank you. michael cohen's testimony live been congress starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow here on nbc. >>> more breaking ws from washington. the house has just voted to reject trump's n declaration of a national emergency to get money for his border wall. the moveorces a vote in the senate. president trump has already reatened a veto. >>> also on capitol hill, ceos of the couny's biggest drug companies were grilled over the skyrocketing costs of medicatio, d now congress is threatening to intervene if the companies don't take steps to make their drugs more affordable. tom costello reports in our series "your money, your life." >> reporter: in indiana, shelby and sarah skipper both have type 1 diabetes, and because they can't afford insulin for two, thead to ration and share. oslready shelby has bee

gaetz, first he stuck to this, right?apologetic, initially. >> he stuck to this and deleting the first tweet and posting another one, while it was important to create context around the testimony of liars like michael cohen it was not my intent to threaten as some believe i did. >> it was a stunning tweet. his spokesman first came out and said the tweet speaks for itself. he also gave an interview before that apology, was totally unapologetic for it. perhaps kevin mccarthy or somebody on leadership got to him and realized we have to do something to clean this up. >> and gloria borger made a good observation, this is a close ally of the president. and one wonders if he did this on his own or if this was some bigger discussion of a threat to michael cohen. he tried to walk it back, i guess. much more on this 20 pages of blockbuster testimony of michael cohen that begins in just hours. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything

today gaetz, you saw it, right?ight committee, and he just showed up there, telling reporters he was going to ask questions, even though that wasn't happening because he's not on the committee. what is the point in this move? why is he there? what's the point in this move? >> this is trump-style thuggery. now in the united states congress, now being practiced physically by this member of congress. i think what he did was reprehensible. this is exactly what's wrong with what's going on in the country today. it's exactly what chairman cummings was saying when he said we're better than this. we are better than this. this is not something you would do in high school or junior high school, let alone in the united states congress. >> well, he took it down, and then, you know, the tweet that he said and then said oh, let's leave the cohen family alone. this is after. >> after i disrupted the cohen family. >> exactly. so david, michael cohen was also asked about trump's not releasing his tax returns because he feared that t

matt gaetz wrote, speaker, i want to get truth, too. while it is important to create context around liars like michael cohen. it is not my intent to threaten. i am deleting the tweet. i should have chosen words that better showed my intent. i'm sorry. does that sort of erase the threatening of the witness in your mind? >> it doesn't erase it. and nonetheless, i am glad he has apologized for it. but the harm has been done and i hope that this will discourage other members from engaging in that kind of low behavior. >> so, congressman, where are we? just give us from where you sit, because you have been so steeped in this. where are we today? does this michael cohen, you know, look, there are so many days we come on the air, there is breaking news, there is some new thread and there is something that sounds explosive. but these 20 pages are really in a different category of what is about to be revealed under oath to congress and so from where you sit, has the needle been moved? how do you assess where the investigations are today? >> well

gaetz responded to the protests by demanding the parents be banneded from the e hearing.o see our interviews with manual oliver and fred guttenberg, go to democracynow.org. elsewhere on capitol hill, a bill was announced wednesdsday that would reqequire president trump to removeve u.s. armed forces from the saudi-i-led warn yemen, which has sparked what the united nationsns calls the world's worst humanitarian crisisis in a a half a centuryr. the bill's sponsor, member ro congress statement,d in a "more than 14 million yemenis, half the country, are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war. let's end american complicity in the atrocities in yemen." in moscow, peace talks b between the taliban and prominent afghgn politicians wrapapped up wednesy with parties agreeing to a road map for ending the u.s.-led war in afghanistan, now in its 18th year, the longest war in u.s. history. the government of afghan president, ashraf ghani, did not attend the talks, which did not reach h consensus on a timelin

but i do want to say that what congressman gaetz did takes the story away from the 40,000 a year whomurdered in this country, the real emergency. 40,000 people a year. and the problem is, while we're sitting here doing this interview, and i have spoken a bit about this lately, in this time frame, somebody is getting the news that their loved one was killed. somebody right now is planning a funeral for a loved one who was killed that will be happening tomorrow. somebody just buried a loved money who was killed. it is an epidemic. and when you have a congressman who will put on a political stunt like that rather than dealing with the emergency that is gun violence, it's shameful. and i think if he -- if the killer of our children was an undocumented immigrant that wasn't the case, he would have been having a political field day with it. but it didn't happen that way. >> and, mannie, i know that the congressman knows who fred is. fred has been very prominent out there, and he knows exactly why fred was at that hearing. i think it would be pretty easy to figure out, even if he had never

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congressman matt gaetz tweeting what seems like a threat to reveal embarrassing personal informationut cohen, saying cohen's about to learn a lot. >> witness testing, not tampering. when they come before congress. their truthfulness is in question, we have the opportunity to test them. >> reporter: cohen is undeterred. >> i look forward to tomorrow to tell the american people my story. i'm going to let the american people decide exactly who is telling the truth. >> reporter: republicans and the white house are trying to discredit cohen's testimony pointing out, he has lied to congress before. the white house secretary saying, quote, it's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like cohen at his word. members of the senate intelligence committee tell us this was a serious grilling. the cohen that showed up to talk to them was a very different guy. mary bruce, abc news, capitol hill. >> thanks to mary and an update from the congressman matt gaetz tweet. he tweeted it was not his intent to threaten cohen. he deleted the tweet and apologized. >> we learned some of what he plans

florida congressman, matt gaetz, is an unswerving defender of president trump. although he's not a member of the house oversight or intelligence committees, gaetz tweeted do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she will remain faithful when you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. speaking to reporters and on the house floor, gaetz denied he was trying to intimidate testifying before testifying. >> would you explain what you mean in that tweet? >> i think that tweet speaks for itself. >> do you have any insight on the relationship. i think you should tune in tomorrow and find out. this is a witness testifying about witness tampering. >> i guess tomorrow we will find out if there is anyone michael cohen hasn't lied to. to the irs and three banks and going to prison for his lies. i guess it will be relevant to determine does he lie to his own family? i think it is entirely appropriate for any member of this body to challenge the truthfulness and veracity and character for people

it's spelled gaetz. and nobody knows how to pronounce it. want to rattle off names of people running for president. kamala harris. what do you think? >> i think you better not get too comfortable with your private insurance, is it cam-la? jesse: yes. >> the blood, not chuck schumer. >> kirsten gillibrand. we should pay her some attention. this is the most of press she has ever gone the. kirsten gillibrand. the minnesota woman who apparently throws shoes at her staff. >> snow globe klobuchar? jesse: no one * is ever going to get that name right. >> no one will vote for her. jess will be they will be mispronouncing her name for a short time. john lynjohn hickenlooper. jesse: this tripped me up. i have again pronouncing this wrong from the jump. it's beto o'rourke, not bay-to. lastly the senator from i think it's ohio. brown is the last name. is it sherrod? >> sherrod brown. jesse: i know why you did so well. everybody mangles your name so you have to get everybody else's right. >> i try to remind them it's like open gates. jesse: three first-t

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ho is this matt gaetz guy republican from florida, anyway?n a pinstripe suit. -- what isseems like his name? black? host: is the michael cohen testimony what you are calling about? caller: i am calling about what is going on right now. i am calling from oregon. eugene, oregon, it is snowing out here. host: let's go to jane in florida, davenport, florida. democrats line. caller: hi, i was calling about the meetings president trump is having in north korea right now. my impression is that he is angling for a nobel peace prize. i don't think he has done much the regard to settling nuclear expansion of north korea . i have read a lot of articles at the time and i don't know why they did not get more coverage about the fact that what was reported is the last blast north korea did about a year and a itf ago, maybe, the big one, cracked their launchpad, it broke the launchpad, so they had to go back and fix it and they just have not been able to launch anything. that turned into a big pr things, we aren't going to launch anymore missiles because the

matt gaetz was there sort of lurking. what did he tell you he was doing in the room?gaetz was in and out of the room for most of the morning, though he left when the first break happened, shortly before news outlets started reporting the idea he was being investigated by the bar association for his comments. i followed him out of the hearing room and asked him what he was doing there, he brushed it off, oh, i'm just doing my job as a congressman. there were other members who weren't a member of that panel by gaetz's presence goes to the same sort of lurking intimidation tactic that existed in the tweet in the first place. he got what he wanted, a news cycle of talking about the content of this tweet and then can throw his hands up and same i'm really sorry. on the eve of the hearing, we were still talking about it and it meant that it continued to be this lurking possibility that perhaps someone on the republican side, who would actually be allowed to ask a question might have asked a questi question. >> the "godfather" part two. >> i don't think i'm being extreme abo

lou: matt gaetz one of the great way tguys with jordan with mead.y biggs, a handful of them in freedom caucus trying to make a difference, what what is happening, sorry rinos, i get so annoyed, you may notice that, i apologize for -- anyway. >> today of a waste of time, nothing to -- >> never a waste of time when we fine the truth, and truth about the radical dimms is they are lower than snake bellies and always will be. >> thank you. lou: we would like to hear your thoughts, share your comments follow me on twitter. facebook, inta descram. up next, radical left use money michael cohen's testimony to try a little harder to take down president trump. we give you a jurist view of some exposure that might have resulted from today's so-called hearing. we'll have that for you, congresswoman caroll miller is joining us next am more on the despicable display of the day, look at u.s. national debt, don't worry they are running it up today in the swamp, by the way they have not got a well, you can clue ea clue half to do about it, it is too much fun spendins

>> i'm not going to waste time responding to every stupid thing matt gaetz says but it does remind me of the president talking to fox news and in effect threat eetenning michael cohen's father in law and that came close if it didn't cross the line into witness tampering. and chairman cummings to the president and warning against witness tampering and other improper actions. "washington post" reporting trump organization asked the house committee to cease investigations. and they reproduced a letter. your response? >> it's nonsense. we've retoned on contract two very good people. to help us with our investigations of the what's been going on and they've been vetted very carefully on ethics and the cramer leaven law firm wrote a letter in efengt dismissing it. it was just nonsense. >> coming up, the president lands. and north korean dictator. >>> breaking news tonight out of north carolina in a story that we have been covering closely on "all in." mark harris, the republican in the center of the election fraud scandal says he will not run again in a new election. harris led by 905 votes

so i don't think you can call that socialist craziness. >> judge jeanine: all right, congressman gaetzdo you agree with that? >> i think that the democratic party is going to suffer from a desire to have the most theatrical candidate. we have two forces converging, judge. one is reducing attention span when it comes to american people paying attention to politics and one who wants to be president. s to be the most growing field. look at the field in 20bg 2016. donald trump was the most interesting and he won. ted cruz was probably the second most interesting and was the runner-up. on the democratic field you will see a lot of fireworks from cory booker. even democrats acknowledge he is a show horse, not a work horse. >> judge jeanine: i will go back to you. elizabeth warren and this whole thing about, you know, she now has apologized to the cherokee nation. i thought it was interesting that the senator warren, the head of the cherokee nation or a spokesperson has reached out to us. but we want to be clear that being a cherokee nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and

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this is congressman gaetz, on with my colleague, chris, a short time ago.> i wanted to highlight the fact there are victims of gun violence that would be in a better position today if we didn't have illegal immigrants coming in to kill people. why does your network slice and dice the audio to make it look like i was trying to throw a guy out. >> what is your reaction to that? >> well, he did try to throw us out. he wasn't able to. i think he didn't -- i don't know if he knew who we were. i think he did. but sometimes when you have something in your head, that is the only solution, which is what i think in this case, this person has, he won't listen to anything else. he was in that room to make his point, to sell his project. and i was in that room along with another hundred people, asking for answers that will defeat gun violence. he had five minutes to make his point, according to the rules in the room. for me, those were five minutes that we wasted. and this is an emergency. we need to make sure that every minute counts. we need to work faster than he's p

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