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Hello and welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. Delighted to have you with me today. I hope you haven't pulled a fire alarm.

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Happy to have you. Let me just go on and play at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

defending Jamal Bowman. He is one of the squad, he's the male member of the squad who pulled the fire alarm over the weekend in Congress.

I think if you actually do see some of the photos of the signs, I think there's there's something to be said about the government's about to shut down.

There's a vote clock that's going down. The exits that are normally open in that building were suddenly closed.

So you pull the fire alarm?

So I'm not, but they're filing a motion to expel a member who in a moment of panic was trying to escape a vestibule.

Give me a break.

And so the idea that there is somehow any kind of equivalence to someone who is

actively trying to clear up a situation that he himself admits he's embarrassed, he released

a statement last night, he apologized. Right, right, right. I need to paint a bigger picture for you over what Jamal Bowman did. Right.

I need to paint a bigger picture for you over what Jamal Bowman did than just the man pulled a fire alarm.

First of all, you should know Jamal Bowman, the Democratic member of Congress who pulled

a fire alarm in the Cannon Office building.

He was a high school principal for years.

How many times do you think Jamal Bowman handled fire drills in his high school where he was the principal.

What's remarkable to me is the white paternalistic racism of the progressives defending him

that, oh, this black man was too stupid to know pulling a fire alarm would set off a fire alarm.

This former high school principal wasn't smart enough

to know that. He was panicked. He was confused by the signs. He was confronted with a door

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