Rep. Stevens On Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Threats’: ‘It’s Called A Red Flag’

there's some breaking news we now have a readout from the white house on the one hour and 20-minute meeting that president biden had tonight with senator manchin and senator cinema a white house official says the president hosted senator manchin and senator cinema at the white house tonight for a candid and respectful exchange of views about voting rights well that much we already knew we knew that's what was on the agenda so the white house isn't telling us so far anything about what was said in that meeting i'm sure pieces of it will leak out overnight our next guest michigan representative haley stevens filed an official complaint with the u.s capitol police about republican congressman marjorie taylor greene congresswoman stevens said i am concerned about the mental health of my colleague from georgia and would like capitol police to address her dangerous threats in my workplace just as we would in any school or job site we cannot let calls for gun violence go unchecked congresswoman stevens filed the complaint after marjorie taylor greene said this democrats they hate our second amendment because ultimately the truth is it's our second amendment rights our right to bear arms that protects americans and gives us the ability to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government and i hate to use this language but democrats they're exactly they're doing exactly what our founders talked about when they gave us the precious rights that we have joining our discussion now is democratic congressman hayley stevens of michigan thank you very much for joining us tonight we really appreciate it uh what did you hear in those comments uh by marjory taylor-greene about the second amendment look this is no longer acceptable to call on violence in a workplace this is about a month and a half lawrence after a school shooting in oakland county michigan it has rocked our community we are reeling from this we are 10 years since the gabby giffords shooting and we are sick of it all right i have been on the phone with my volunteers for moms demand action i got to congress on a common sense gun safety platform and i am not going to allow a colleague of mine uh to push us around and to incite violence the words matter the words absolutely matter and it's no longer acceptable lawrence and i've done this before you know mr buck congressman buck he's got an assault rifle in his office in capitol hill you know pre-pandemic when we had students walking through the halls that's not acceptable we've got to change our culture we've got to pass guns common sense gun safety legislation certainly honoring the long tradition of you know the sports of hunting and rivalry that's fine you know go back to the roots stop the violence if if this were a high school and a student was found uh writing notes about second amendment rights and maybe the second amendment uh needs to be uh used because some of the students are bothering me or some of the teachers are bothering me the uh the school administration would have a lot to say to that student yeah it's called a red flag it's absolutely called a red flag and this is something we just lived through back home that's why i have called this out because it's personal and it all ties back you know you create a zeitgeist you create a culture as an elected official through your words and this is an incitement of violence and you're absolutely right and look i want to applaud our capitol police lawrence you know it look they worked so hard they they've been through a lot they've been through hell and back and and and certainly you know their responsibilities their duties here i know that they are here trying to protect the safety in a in an environment that's tense look marjorie taylor greene is a bully and she's bullying colleagues in the workplace she started screaming at us after we passed a woman's health protection bill and i backed away because i didn't know if she had a weapon on her that's immediately what i thought because that's the culture that she's inciting it's got to stop we've got to set the example for our students and i'm going to call it out uh you know her and you work with her and you say in your about your complaint you're not sure about her mental health look her behavior is unhinged and to say something like that and to double down to be fined you know tens and tens of thousands of dollars for not complying with the basic human decency of wearing a mask as required on the house floor you know a flagrant disregard for this pandemic and the rules of the house you know what's going on here and that is by the way you know what these red flag laws are about in some respects right you know those who've committed crimes you know that not having access to weapons and and look i i'm not trying to make too many comments here about you know from a professional diagnosis standpoint but what i will say here lawrence is there's something going on with this lady and it ain't right [Music] you

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Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 14 2022