Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Rep. Steve Scalise: Unbelievable how far to the left the Democrats' agenda has swung
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CHAFFETZ: Coming after your guns.
Here now on this push from the left over who should and should not have Constitutional rights in this country is House Minority Whip Steve Scalise. I had the honor and privilege of serving with him in Congress. Whip Scalise, thank you so much for joining here. On the one hand, Democrats want to give rights to convicted felons. At the same time they want to take away their rights of law-abiding citizens. What are the Democrats doing here?
REP. STEVE SCALISE, R-LA, HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: Jason, it's almost unbelievable when you look at how far to the left they have gone where socialism literally is beating out liberalism in terms of their ideology. And like you said, they want to give the Boston -- the Boston bomber the ability to vote from prison. And they're going to take away your First Amendment rights, your Second Amendment rights. They have got this plan on health care where they want to take away your ability to buy your own private insurance from your company. So it's all about control versus freedom. They want to take away more rights for law-abiding citizens, but they want to give more rights to people who broke the law. Violent felons serving in prison should be able to vote while they are in prison, let them keep talking about this, Jason, in public, where everybody can see just how far their party has gone.
CHAFFETZ: Yes, when they actually have to take policy positions, this is where they get themselves into trouble because they do expose it. They fight harder for people that aren't American or they fight harder for people that are in jail and incarcerated then they do to allow their own people to keep, say, their guns under the Second Amendment or keep their health care policy with their employer. It really is amazing.
But I want to get her three topics here, and we've got a short amount of time, because it isn't just policy pushes that reveal the radical tendencies of the left but also how their frontrunner discusses America's greatest ally in the Middle East. Watch this.
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SANDERS: The fact of the matter is that Netanyahu is a rightwing politician who I think is treating the Palestinian people extremely unfairly. The goal must be to try to bring people together and not just support one country, which is now run by a rightwing, dare I say, racist government.
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CHAFFETZ: Wow. Congressman, President Obama certainly wasn't a fan of Bibi Netanyahu, no doubt about it, but could you ever imagine him saying something this ugly about one of our greatest allies?
SCALISE: There's absolutely no place for it. He owes an apology to Benjamin Netanyahu. And I've met with Benjamin Netanyahu many times and talked in Jerusalem about what he's trying to do to promote peace and actually have a two-state solution. But you have to have both sides wanting to have peace. When one side says that they don't want to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and you see the anti-Semitism, even in Congress, that Nancy Pelosi and others won't stand up to, when you look at Gaza, a peace offering by Israel to say, hey, let's see if we can work on land for peace, and look at Gaza today, it's a launching pad for every terrorist organization that wants to undermine Israel that you can imagine.
Thank goodness Donald Trump is standing with our ally, Israel, but it's very telling to see where the Democrat candidates for president are going with our greatest ally in the Middle East and one of our greatest allies in the world who we all ought to be standing with, who needs that support from America. Israel is our friend and our ally. We need to stand with Israel, not attack them.
CHAFFETZ: Steny Hoyer at the AIPAC conference tried to brush it off as if, it's just two or three people that are acting this way. But, no, it's the Democratic frontrunner for the presidency of United States.
SCALISE: It's a growing problem, Jason. And they won't stand up to anti- Semitism. That should be the easiest thing we can come together on, to stand up against anti-Semitism, and they won't do that.
CHAFFETZ: Congressman, I want to, real quickly before you go, there's been some chatter about a potential Republican challenger to President Trump. One man who was thought to be stepping back from consideration, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, seemed to give it a second thought today. Watch this.
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CHAFFETZ: I don't know who he owes, but Congressman, what are your thoughts on challenging Donald Trump at this point?
SCALISE: It's a free country, but anybody who challenges Donald Trump has to know, we've got one of the best economies we've seen in generations. When there are more job openings then people looking for work, when regulations are finally under control, where you can do business in America again, where we are seeing true opportunities for people, and the president fighting both here and abroad, giving our troops a pay raise, first one they've had in years, and standing up for America, again trying to secure the border, President Trump has a great story to tell. And anyone that wants to run against him, he's ready for the fight. He's a tough guy. But in the end, I think it the American people want to keep it going.
CHAFFETZ: I'm glad Hogan is the governor of Maryland, but I think that is where he should be.
SCALISE: I agree.
CHAFFETZ: Congressman, thank you again for joining us. Good to see you tonight.
SCALISE: Great being with you, Jason. Take care.
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