This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal.

This week we spoke with Colorado Republican Congressman Gabe Evans.

He was one of the final representatives to ask questions at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing called When Badges become targets, how anti-law enforcement rhetoric fuels violence against officers.

Evans was a cop in Colorado before he was a congressman, and he explained his own experience with violent rhetoric,

how it resulted in the death of a fellow officer in 2021. He also responded to Democrats who used

their time to focus on ICE arrests or accused the Trump administration

of cutting certain grant funding. The heads of law enforcement organizations testified at the

hearing that elected leadership calling cops and agents, Nazis, and Gestapo needs to stop,

that they're facing a recruitment problem that's about to worsen as retention issues mount.

Many officers are at retirement age.

The head of the Federal Law Enforcement Association said officers, deputies and agents are facing an

unprecedented threat landscape unlike anything he's ever seen. We often have to cut interviews down for time during the week, but thought you might like to hear this full interview.

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Now here's Colorado Republican Congressman Gabe Evans on the Fox News Rundown Extra.

It seemed like the witnesses, three of the four, heads of law enforcement agencies, were, I guess, a bit

taken aback by the tone of the hearing at times. I think it was a fraternal order of police,

President Patrick Yose, who was like point blank. We're not talking about officers being shot

and killed. What did you make of the hearing? You spoke towards the

end, so you got to listen to a lot of it. Yeah, I mean, the hearing was about when the badge

becomes the target. And unfortunately, that's something that I've personally experienced. And I

alluded to some of that in my comments in the hearing, both being a cop in the Denver metro area

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