Matt Schlapp Stuns Greta Van Susteren By Claiming He’d Hug The Mother of The Minneapolis School Shooter

Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference, surprised NewsMax host Greta Van Susteren when he claimed he would embrace the mother of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter if given the chance.

The revelation came as the two discussed the horrific shooting that left two children dead and scores of others injured as they prayed during mass at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis earlier this week.

“You know…I do not like to have a parent on who’s lost a child,” Van Susteren said, and Schlapp agreed. “What do you say? I mean, the other night it was very difficult, there was a woman who was a Gold Star family who lost her son in Abbey Gate [Afghanistan] and she had a very important message. Because I wanted her to be able to tell everybody about her son, about his sacrifice and the impact, and I thought it was very important. But I just don’t — you don’t even know what to say to these parents. You know, what’s the first question? What do you say?”

“You know, if I saw this woman, who was the mother of this shooter —” Schlapp began before Van Susteren interjected, “She’s easier.”

“I feel like I just want to hug her, because my guess —”

“The mother of the shooter?” Van Susteren asked, stunned.

“My guess is she tried,” Schlapp said. “Mothers try. She just made all the wrong moves.”

“But, I mean, all you do is pick up a phone call, maybe anonymously. ‘My child is acting odd’ or ‘doing this.’ I mean, I’m making the assumption that there was something to be seen,” Van Susteren added.

Schlapp then suggested that authorities should be able to use Artificial Intelligence to track down potential shooters before they strike.

“Don’t tell me that they don’t have the technology to figure out these outliers in our society that are saying, literally saying, that they’re going to kill people,” he concluded.

Watch the clip above via NewsMax.