lewis is a former aide to steny hoyer and has racked up the coveted endorsement. lewis. welcome to "the sunday show." first question, and it's always the first question in this segment, the on the run segment as we call it. why are you running? >> well, first, thank you so much for having me, jonathan. it is an honor to be on "the sunday show." i'm running because we're in a moment where our country where big things are possible right now. i was born and raised in this district. i graduated from our schools. i got my start as a student, trying to make sure i wasn't priced out of my education during the recession. and that sparked me and 600 of my friends and colleagues descending on the president of the united states and negotiating with him to make sure we weren't priced -- it was the spark that led mow to believe and know that i can make a difference. i went from there to becoming a community organizer with the s.e.i.u., with the unions, and i want to become effective and work for leader hoyer. i'm running because i have a baby boy. i want to make sure the many

but after that was over, they wanted to go back to steny hoyer's office. they went back there.hen we were overrun, the siege began, i was separated from them and they were with my chief of staff julie. they dedicated themselves in -- they barricaded themselves in steny hoyer's office and pushed all of the furniture up against the door and tabatha and hank were hiding under a desk for a few hours while people were pounding on the door and they could hear the right place outside. amy: and yet you have somebody denying what took place, even though they themselves were threatened like you are. i want to talk about the latest of elements and what you think is the most significant revelation to come out of your committee right now. those who have testified, those who haven't. vice president pence has not yet testified but marc short come his chief of staff, has testified we have learned. not to mention others, for example, well, talk about what happened this week. yet testimony from a prison. >> yeah, we did. amy: can you talk about that? >> as i was saying, i view it as taking place

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. >>> steny hoyer has tested positive for covid. the second most powerful democrat in the house behind speaker nancy pelosi. hoyer says he has mild symptoms. >>> now to the controversy surrounding whoopi goldberg and her recent comments about the holocaust. she's now being disciplined. here's abc's will ganss. >> reporter: this morning, abc news suspending whoopi goldberg in response to her inaccurate claims that the holocaust was not related to race. abc news president kim godwin saying, effective immediately i am suspending whoopi goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. while whoopi has apologized, i've asked her to take time to refledge and learn about the impact of her comments. the entire abc news organization stands in solidarity with our jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities. goldberg made the inflammatory remarks monday on "the view" while discussing a tennessee school board's decision to ban the book "maus," a graphic novel about the holocaust. >> if you're going to do this then let's be trut

. >> the act itself it was representative steny hoyer saying in part to compete act will strengthen national security issues by storing up supply chains and ensuring we can build america with semi conductors and microchips our industry needs . >> we see several companies that have relocated semi conductors. in texas specifically and that's something we need to be focused on but there's so much to unpack when it comes to supply chain issues. we have to compete with china question about where those rare earth minerals are coming from, if we care about the environment, if we care about our supply chains, if we are paying attention to what is going on around the world we will do a lot of this year, we will make sure our supply chains are not dependent and held hostage by other countries like chinaand russia . >> but from the chips aspect itself why does this bill not accomplish that goal? >> there may be pieces and parts into that but these other tagalong's that are weighing it down. i mentioned one, the billion-dollar slush fund. there was a debate about just an internal debate on the house flo

and our leadership, leader steny hoyer went over and talked to some of his colleagues and their leadershipnd him. and they said he would come over and apologize. and so when he came to the floor to apologize, mind you without a mask on, i stepped back. as he reached out to touch my arm, i said don't touch me. and i moved back because he didn't have a mask on. with that, he mumbled some words. and i told leadership, it wasn't acceptable. i wanted a public apology. and speaker pelosi said if you insult high-profile, you have to do a high-profile apology. that is when he publicly apologized. and i have accepted his public apology and i'm moving on. but i won't stop standing up for what i believe in. and if you ride the train, then the message you put a mask on or you walk. >> so ultimately you think the apology combined with the public statement, you're satisfied? >> well, i'm going to move on. we have so much work to do. and the real reality is there's not much more he can do. so i did accept the public apology. and i'm going to go on and continue to fight and stand up for all the things tha

host: steny hoyer in an op-ed saying, in part, the competes act will strengthen national security issuesshoring up supply chains, making sure that we can build the semiconductors and microchips that our country needs. guest: we certainly need that. several companies have relocated semiconductors in texas specifically. that is something we need to be focused on. there is so much to unpack when it come to the supply chain issues, we don't have enough time to talk about it, but we need to compete with china. the question of where those rare earth minerals come from -- if we really care about the environment, if we care about our supply chains, if we care about what is happening around the world -- we will do a lot of that here, make sure that our supply chains are not held hostage by other countries like china and russia. host: as for the chips, why does this bill not accomplish that goal? guest: mip pieces aimed at that but all of these other backlogs are weighing it down. i mentioned one, the 8 billion-dollar slush fund. there was an internal debate, not on the house floor, about sending

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steny hoyer is 82.e democratic party. these young leftists come from very safe seats. hard to see any of them losing their seats this november. they want to run the show when the moderates go down to defeat is unlikely will. aoc is a gifted politician whether democrats like it or not. she's the face of socialism's new blood. third hour of varney just getting started. in 2022, the torch will be passed whether you like it or not. den --ben dominic wrote that. how about aoc as the new blood for the democrats. will that fly? >> i think it will. thank you for having me on. i'm in the mindset that we are seeing the end of an era in american politics in a number of ways, the passing of the torch away from the giant impact the baby boom had an american politics. we had three presidents, bill clinton, george w. bush, donald trump born in 1946 which is amazing. it says something about the degree to which the baby boom had a world altering effect in terms of not just impacting america but around the world. in our

talked to the majority leader, steny hoyer. we came to an agreement and the answer was yes.o we wanted to appoint. we wanted to make it right. worked hard on it. when the democrats said it had to be a smaller committee. i said, ok, i'll make it smaller just so we can do it. february, 2020, a joint release was ready to go out. this is how far we came. i don't know if you know the reporter josh rogan from "the washington post". we could have a story about it. that's how close we were. but just as that press release was ready to hit the button to go, at the time on 2/24, the chairman engel staff said some small things had to be changed. march 18, the early days of china coronavirus outbreak and the cover-up came out. study published in march indicated that if chinese authorities have acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of cases could have been reduced by 95%. i'm sure that committee could have found a lot of that. may 7, 2020, "washington post" wrote "g.o.p. to launch china task force." because i wanted the democrats to stay with us. we had the reports. we had t