Candace Owens SHUTS DOWN Rep Ted Lieu At Congressional Hearing

he is assuming that black people will. not go pursue the full two-hour clip and. he purposefully extracted he cut off and. you didn't hear the question that was. asked of me he's trying to present as if. i was launching a defense of hitler in. germany when in fact the question that. was asked of me was returning to whether. or not i believed that hitler was a. whether or not i believed in nationalism. and that nationalism was bad and what i. responded to was that i do not believe. that we should be characterizing hitler. as a nationalist he was a homicidal. psychopathic maniac that killed his own.

people a nationalist would not kill. their own people that is exactly what i. was referring to in the clip and he. purposely wanted to give you a cut up. similar to what they do to donald trump. to create a different narrative that was. unbelievably dishonest and he did not. allow me to respond to it which is. worrisome and to tell you a lot about. where people are today in terms of. trying to drum up narratives by the way. i would like to also add that i work for. prager university which is run by an. orthodox jew and a single democrat. showed up to the embassy opening in. jerusalem i sat on a plane for 18 hours. to make sure that i was there i'm deeply.

offended by the insinuation of revealing. that clip without the question that was. asked of me. thanks mrs owens and i yield the. remainder of my time. thank you mr chair. in congressional hearings. the minority party gets to select its. own witnesses. and of all the people that republicans. could have selected they picked candace. owens. i don't know miss owens i'm not going to.

characterize her i'm going to let her. own words do the talking so i'm going to. play for you the first 30 seconds of a. statement she made about adolf hitler. i agree i i actually don't have any. problems at all with the word. nationalism i think that it gets uh. the definition gets poisoned um by uh. leaders that actually want globalism. globalism is what i what i don't want so. when you think about whenever we say. nationalism the first thing people think. about in at least in america is hitler.

you know he was a national socialist but. if hitler just wanted to make germany. great and have things run well okay fine. the problem is is that he wanted he had. dreams outside of germany he wanted to. globalize he wanted everybody to be. german everybody to be speaking german. all right so my uh first question is to. miss hershenoff. miss owen said quote if hitler just. wanted to make germany great and have. things run well okay fine. the problem is that he wanted he had. dreams outside of germany.

so when people try to legitimize adolf. hitler does that feed into white. nationalist ideology. it does mr liu i know that. ms owens distanced herself from those. comments later but we expressed great. concern over the original comments great. thank you. so there's been. a lot of talk today i like to focus on. actual policy responses. that our government can do to. try to.

mitigate the threat of white nationalism. i know that in my district in los. angeles just last month two swastikas. were painted at pam pacific park along. with the trail of blood i met with. jewish constituents in my district who. mentioned that. at their synagogues they've all had to. increase security. as you know there is a non-profit. security grant program at the department. of homeland security. do you believe it'd be worthwhile to. increase funding to that program.

the adl has for establishment reasons. first amendment reasons been very. cautious and wary of government funding. to. religious institutions. that being said we well understand the. fear and the safety so i think that is. something that has to be done very. carefully in terms of one entanglement i. know in the place where i in westchester. county where i live the state and local.

governments provide a great deal of. protection uh to the synagogue to which. i belong so i do understand and i would. like to work more with congress but i. want to caution about. where we entangle this is a very. difficult thing to do because when we're. scared like this. of course we want money that is a great. point you make and i want to know that. this program would apply to mosques as. well as synagogues so it is not specific. to the religion. but uh it is true the first amendment.

does affect all these issues including. for example private sector companies who. say whatever it is that they want now. i'd like to also talk about a second. program and this was one that i'm going. to ask miss clark about. and it has to do. with the trump administration wanting to. cut a very specific. office called the community relations. service office. in the civil rights division of. department of justice can you first. explain to american people what that. office does. and why it would be a bad idea to cut.

funding the community relations service. office is a very critical. part of the justice department they are. considered the peacemakers they are the. ones who step into communities that are. embroiled uh in the aftermath of a hate. incident uh they are the ones who you'd. want to deploy out to louisiana to the. parishes where the churches are burning. right now they're the ones that you'd. want on the ground right after the. charlottesville hate rally we are deeply.

concerned by proposals to. cut funding to this office to shift this. office to another part. of the agency it's important that this. agency's work be completely. non-political but the very subject. matter of this hearing today underscores. the urgency of maintaining this office. that has been with us for decades. and in fact one of the reasons that this. office has worked well is because people. who go there and get interviewed it is. not a prosecutorial office and does that. make it easier for people to uh provide.

information. that's right the they are the. peacemakers they are the ones who go in. and connect with communities that are. suffering in the aftermath of a hate. incident they connect with. victims. of of crimes and hate crimes and connect. them with services and most importantly. they are the ones who help to ensure. that an incident doesn't escalate and. lead to more tension so we need this. agency now more than ever thank you and. i yield back.

gentleman from north dakota mr armstrong. thank you mr chairman and i would uh. yield my time to mr russian dollar from. pennsylvania. thank you. uh miss owen uh miss owens i'm sorry we. just started recording um would you like. time to respond to that. yes um i think it's pretty apparent that. uh mr lube believes that black people. are stupid and will not uh pursue the. full clip in its entirety he purposely. presented an extract an extracted.

it is not proper. to refer disparagingly or with to a. member of the committee uh the witness. will not do that again. witness may continue. sure even though i was called despicable. um witness may not refer to a member of. the committee as stupid. i didn't refer to him as stupid that's. not what i said that's not what i said. at all. you didn't listen to what i said. may i continue please.

as i said he is assuming that black. people will not go pursue the full. two-hour clip and he purposefully. extracted he cut off and you didn't hear. the question that was asked of me he's. trying to present as if i was launching. a defense of hitler in germany when in. fact the question that was asked of me. was returning to whether or not i. believed that hitler was a whether or. not i believed in nationalism and that. nationalism was bad and what i responded. to was that i do not believe that we. should be characterizing hitler as a. nationalist he was a homicidal.

psychopathic maniac that killed his own. people a nationalist would not kill. their own people that is exactly what i. was referring to in the clip and he. purposely wanted to give you a cut up. similar to what they do to donald trump. to create a different narrative that was. unbelievably dishonest and he did not. allow me to respond to it which is. worrisome and to tell you a lot about. where people are today in terms of. trying to drum up narratives by the way. i would like to also add that i work for. prager university which is run by an. orthodox jew and a single democrat. showed up to the embassy opening in. jerusalem i sat on a plane for 18 hours.

to make sure that i was there i'm deeply. offended by the insinuation of revealing. that clip without the question that was. asked of me. thanks mrs owens and i yield the. remainder of my time.