Reps Gaetz, Green Hold "America First" Rally Amid Uproar

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🗓️ 8 May 2021

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Michael Smerconish hosts in place of Chris discussing the controversial Reps Gaetz and Greene rally with Donie O'Sullivan, America's unemployment rate with Harry Enten, and the debate over vaccine mandates with Dr. Leana Wen. 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	John Berman, thank you. I am Michael Swerkhanishin for Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Prime Time.
0:04.8	Chris will be back on Monday. Tonight, two of the most controversial figures in the GOP
0:09.6	kicked off their joint tour in Florida, pledging allegiance again to the most controversial
0:14.7	president in modern-day history. One of the lawmakers is under criminal investigation for sex
0:19.8	trafficking, prostitution crimes, and possible sex with a minor. The other lost her committee
0:24.8	assignments over violent statements and wild conspiracy theories. This is our first stop,
0:31.5	but there will be many more in America's greatest president and the undisputed leader of the
0:37.7	Republican Party, Donald J. Trump. My join us on a few. Or we might join him. The Democrats impeached
0:46.0	president Trump over a perfect phone call, by the way. The Democrats that say they won
0:55.6	the presidential race. You are not going to put us down for loving president Trump and what he
1:01.4	did for the past four years. They thought that you people were done. We're not done.
1:09.2	Representatives Matt Gates and Marjorie Taylor Greene chose to launch their America first tour
1:14.4	in a conservative stronghold called the Villages, a mega-friendly retirement community.
1:19.2	Now, you might think this joint appearance of two lightning rods at one of the most Republican
1:23.7	bastions in an important swing state is a troublesome sign for the Republican Party. Gates and
1:29.6	Greene and the Villages, it sounds like a comedy act, right? One that may cause some to laugh at,
1:35.4	not laugh along with. You may ask yourselves, how can this possibly end well for a party that
1:41.6	desperately wants to retake the House and Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024?
1:49.7	I'm a marked marked man in Congress. I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet. I
1:57.2	might be a wanted man by the deep state, but I am a Florida man and it is good to be home.
2:03.9	And so that's why I'm a member of Congress. And they don't like me very much. The Democrats in
2:10.2	charge were so sweet to me and then there were I think what, 11 Republicans, something like that,
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