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So I was questioning Senator Rubio on Code Pink, which is a foreign-funded organization,

and I've been going after FARA, et cetera, and so as I was leaving, they were asking

questions.

I don't have an issue asking questions, but when you were berating me and trying to block

me from being able to come vote, it's an issue, but I continued to answer them.

I was walking out of Rayburn, and as we were trying to walk away from them, I guess they

didn't like what I was saying, so one of the lead organizers actually smacked me.

And so at that point, I broke contact.

Can you reenact how you were hit?

I was literally walking, trying to walk away from this person, and they smacked me.

In what part of the body?

They smacked my arm.

They smacked your—are you injured right now?

I mean, look, either which way, you don't touch anyone, especially if you don't like

what they're saying.

You cannot physically harm someone.

You can't hit them.

You can't block people from being able to vote.

And so what I will say is I have filed charges.

There's footage of this.

They have multiple angles of this.

There was multiple witnesses.

We have people that filed statements as well, and I think that she's going to be getting

in a lot of trouble.

You cannot do that to people.

So yeah, I just saw you speaking with a group of police officers.

That was you pressing charges?

Well, I'm giving my statements, and they are basically investigating for assault, yeah.

Okay.

So ultimately, they determine whether or not we can actually press charges, but I think

they have more than enough evidence.

So we'll know later on today.

But if you're able to, you definitely will be pressing charges.

Absolutely, yeah.

You can't hit people.

What do you hope happens to the person that hit?

We live in a day and age when people feel like they can hurt people because they disagree

with them politically.

We've seen this happen to many conservatives, but I'm sure it also happens on the left

as well.

That's unacceptable.

You shouldn't be doing that.

I'm just glad that there was footage of it, and I think that we have more than enough

evidence to hold this person accountable and responsible and let this person be a symbol

to everyone else that's going to come up here and try to hurt people because they disagree

with them.

So you were just walking out of the hearing.

Someone comes up and smacks you.

It was a group of Code Pink.

I was specifically questioning Secretary Rubio on Code Pink's foreign funding ties and links

to the CCP.

And that was the group that was surrounding me.

They at one point tried to block me from actually walking across the street to come vote, which

you cannot do.

And then when I did not give them responses that they liked, I got smacked.

Based off your conversations with police, and ultimately it's going to be up to their

investigation, but do you think that this person's going to be arrested?

Yes.

Without a doubt.

For assault?

Yes.

If you could say something to that person right now, what would you say?

You cannot hit people because they disagree with you.

That is completely against what this entire institution stands for.

And by the way, if you cared about actual Palestinians or Muslims, then why is it that

you take money from a country that is currently engaging in imprisoning Muslims, Uighur Muslims

in concentration camps, also known as China?