‘Are You Serious!?’ Fox’s Bartiromo Confronts Republican Over His Bill to Deport Campus Protestors to Gaza
Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo grilled Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) on his recent bill to deport college campus protestors “convicted of illegal activity” to the Gaza Strip.
“I want to get your reaction to Biden’s speech yesterday, but I also want to talk about this bill that you’re introducing, that you, the bill would send anybody convicted of illegal activity on a college campus. It would send them to Gaza for at least six months. I got to be honest, Congressman, when I first saw this, I thought this was a joke. Are you serious? Anybody who’s arrested on a college campus, you know, being an activist you want to send to Gaza?” Bartiromo asked.
“Well, you know, part of the, it’s a messaging bill to reset the conversation. We’ve got to have accountability on these college campuses,” Ogles replied, adding:
And so literally, shortly after dropping the bill, you started to see this crackdown on college campuses where they started disassembling these protests in these camps. And so it had the impact to say, look, if you guys don’t, do, you know, essentially create, the rule of law, because, again, if this is a Christian group, it was a conservative group, they wouldn’t have allowed these types of protest, mayhem and destruction on these college campuses.
But because they’re woke liberals, and quite frankly, many of these administrations agreed with the students. They’re anti-Semitic. You know, they’re anti quite frankly America I would argue. And so it was a messaging bill. But look if these folks truly understand what the world is like go to Gaza see it for yourself. They’re going to be crying back home wanting to be with their mommies and daddies. Because you know what, the world’s a dangerous place and the comfort of their college campus is, rather nice compared to the Gaza Strip?
Bartiromo wasn’t done with hitting back on the feasibility of Ogles’s bill, “I mean, honestly, you’re not you’re not really expecting any students to go to Gaza, are you?”
“Oh, of course not. And no. And nor would they. Right. But look, we’ve got to have accountability. We’ve got to have the, this messaging built to send, to send, you know, set the record straight. You can’t do this,” Ogles replied as Bartiromo offered a not-so-subtle eye-roll.
Watch the clip above.
