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Merry Christmas to you all, tuning in, including the majority leader of the House Republican caucus, Steve Scalise, Congressman Extraordinaire from Louisiana.

Good morning, Congressman. Great to have you back.

Good morning, Hugh. Great to be back with you. Merry Christmas. I love the holiday season.

Thank you, Leader. I got a lot to talk to you about. The CR, the AM Radio and Every Vehicle Act, and especially reconciliation.

But I want to start by getting your reaction. Seven years ago, a madman tried to kill you in every Republican in Congress.

And you survived.

You're an inspiration to every victim of crime out there.

What do you think when people glorify the assassin of Brian Thompson?

When you hear that on air, what do you think?

It's disgusting.

You, I mean, you know, when you try to justify

or equivocate, you know, what, what somebody did to take another life, I mean, here's a man with a family.

You know, you have an issue with what happens at a company or a government. You have the right to go

petition to make your case,

to vote people out of office, to run for office.

But violence is never an answer.

Violence should never be condoned and it surely shouldn't be glorified.

And to see this, you know, and it just shows you how there's such a leftist tilt that the value of life just seems to be diminished by so many people.

And it's important for us to push back.

We can never allow that to become a norm, you know, where we're in here in America.

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