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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Rep Chip Roy

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Chris speaks with Representative Chip Roy and Representative Jim Clyburn, hosts "The Great Debate" between Van Jones and Steve Cortes, and presents a Closing Argument on elections and their consequences.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's not cheddar. It would have been provolone if it was Rudy, you know, because that's the Italian thing.

0:07.4

Well done, as always, my friend, and you can have whatever protein shake you want.

0:11.0

I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to prime time.

0:13.3

Republican sabotages afoot in the House, says Speaker Pelosi.

0:17.4

We have a member of Congress who's holding up the disaster bill.

0:26.6

He wants to tell us why he is doing the right thing in his opinion, and we will test the case. On the Democratic side, what's the bigger risk to Joe Biden?

0:30.6

The president's tweets or his position on the 94 crime bill.

0:34.6

Congressional vet, majority whip Jim Clyburn has a stern message for presidential

0:40.9

contenders on this issue, and you need to hear it. And how many are going to die this year trying

0:46.1

to climb Everest? We have new information tonight on the state of the fatal log jam. What do you say?

0:52.3

Let's get after it.

1:02.9

All right, so here's the latest. Congressman Tom Massey from Kentucky has become the second Republican in a week to hold up $19 billion in disaster relief monies. His fellow Republican,

1:10.1

Chip Roy, led the way on Friday. Now, Roy says he has

1:14.1

good reason to stop the bill, even if it delays needed funding to people in his home state

1:20.2

of Texas. Congressman Roy, welcome back to prime time. Good to have you here to make the case.

1:25.6

Let me ask you, over the Memorial Day weekend, what did you tell your constituents who need this money? Well, Chris, thanks for having me on, and thanks for focusing on this important issue. And let me tell you what happened. Last Thursday, Speaker Pelosi adjourned the House Representatives for the Memorial Day recess for 10 days, and everybody was out of town. And I'm heading to the airport to come

1:44.8

home to Texas. And what I hear is that the speaker was inclined to bring forward a bill that would

1:49.7

spend $19 billion unpaid for without any head nod towards the disaster we've got going on at our

1:55.3

southern border and that she was going to do so by unanimous consent. And that means she wasn't going to

2:00.3

have a vote. And I don't know about you, but the American people were working last Friday, but unfortunately the House of Representatives wasn't in Washington. She was going to bring forward a bill and have it go by consent. And I just happened to be the belief that if you're going to spend $19 billion of taxpayer money, we should vote on it. The people's house have a responsibility to do our job

2:18.5

and vote. I got you. So I left the airport, went back, stood there, and I had stood up and showed up

2:23.4

on Friday, and I objected. Now look, I've got a lot of understanding of how much this means to people

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