Candace Owens — 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 for turning to whether or not I believed that Hitler was 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 gonna characterize her. I'm gonna let her own words do the talking. So I'm gonna play for you. The first 30 seconds of a statement she made about Adolf Hitler. I agree. I actually don't have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that it gets, the definition gets poisoned. by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want. So when you think about, whenever we say nationalism, the 1st thing people think about, 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. 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, 1st question is to Ms. Hershinoff. Miss Owens said, quote, If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and a half 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. Lou. 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, uh, 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 Pan 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, for 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 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 synagogue, so it is not specific to the religion. But 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 like to also talk about a second program. And this was one that I asked Ms. 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 in the aftermath of a hate incident. 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 ship 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 provide information? That's right.

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 crimes, and hate crimes, and connect them with services. And most importantly, they're the ones who help to ensure that an incident doesn't escalate and lead to more time.ion. So we need this agency now more than ever. Thank you, and I yield back. Gentlemen from North Dakota, Mr.

Armstrong. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would yield my time to Mr. Roshenthaler from Pennsylvania. Thank you. Ms. Owen, Ms. Owens, I'm sorry. We just started a recording. Would you like time to respond to that? Yes, um, I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Lube believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extract, an extracted clip. We just will suspend for a moment.

It is not proper to refer disparagingly or to a member of the committee. The witness will not do that again. Witness may continue. Sure, even though I was called despicable. 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 perturning to whether or not I believed that Hitler was 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.