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Pramila Jayapal: “It’s not, Chris. And you know, I’ll tell you, I was just on the floor tonight with a colleague, a Democratic colleague…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2021
It’s not, Chris. And you know, I’ll tell you, I was just on the floor tonight with a colleague, a Democratic colleague, and I think we’ve all kind of had it because there is this -- I mean, the country has to reckon with what happened on January 6th, and there’s this giant gap between our colleagues who are saying it didn’t happen, and that there are tourists, as you heard Jamie Raskin questioning him about, and we know that it happened.
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington
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msnbc.com

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Jayapal discusses the need for Congress to reckon with the events of January 6th and the differing perspectives among colleagues.

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