‘Anything He Says Is Laughable’: Langworthy Rips Bowman Over Criticism Of Police At College Protests

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On “Forbes Newsroom,” Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) spoke against Democrats criticizing police involvement in the Anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and other schools nationwide.

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00:00 What do you make of some of your colleagues in Congress celebrating these protesters?

00:06 Not the violent ones, but protesters on college campuses.

00:09 You're applauding police action here.

00:12 Fellow New York Democrats are criticizing police getting involved.

00:14 I want to read what they posted and get your response.

00:17 Congressman Jamal Bowman posted this quote, as a former educator, I know how dangerous

00:22 the over policing and militarization of our schools is.

00:25 This is shameful and unacceptable.

00:26 Our kids deserve better.

00:28 Our teachers deserve better and our schools deserve better.

00:31 And Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted this quote, if any kid is hurt tonight,

00:36 responsibility will fall on the mayor and university presidents.

00:39 Other leaders in schools have found a safety escalatory path.

00:42 This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety, a nightmare in the making.

00:47 What's your reaction here?

00:48 Well, it's it's very selective what those members say.

00:52 I mean, Jamal Bowman to talk about public safety.

00:54 Here's a guy that didn't like a vote that was coming up.

00:56 So he pulled a fire alarm at the U.S. Capitol.

00:59 He should have spent time in jail for that, if not faced expulsion himself.

01:04 You know, anything he says is laughable.

01:06 And I don't think he's going to be in Congress very much longer.

01:09 But when when you you think about this, we have Jewish students in this country that

01:17 no longer feel safe on their campuses.

01:19 I talk to Jews in this country all the time to say that they've never felt anti-Semitism

01:24 so close to the surface.

01:26 You know, there's always a subtext to some extent.

01:29 But now it seems fashionable from the left to be anti-Jew, to be, you know, to talk about

01:36 the harm to the Jewish people.

01:39 It's time that we wake up.

01:41 No American should walk in fear in the greatest country in the history of the world, let alone

01:47 on a college campus, which is supposed to be a marketplace of free ideas.

01:50 Yet you have people blockading Jewish students from going to class, blocking entrances.

02:00 Saw some footage just this morning from UCLA where they stood and prevented a Jewish student

02:08 from going to class.

02:13 We wouldn't have tolerated this, you know, someone trying to segregate our schools, you

02:18 know, from African-American students, and we sure as hell in 2024 should never allow

02:22 someone to not be allowed to go to their class because they happen to be Jewish.

02:28 This needs to be stopped.

02:31 And these university presidents need to be held accountable.

02:34 I really salute what Congresswoman Stefanik and the House and Labor Committee have done,

02:41 shining a light on what's going on on these campuses, because we pour hellish federal

02:46 money on the big educational industrial complex in this country.

02:50 And you have a president that wants to cancel loans that these people signed for, might

02:55 not have had a job attached to the degree program, but he wants to cancel these loans

02:59 left and right.

03:01 And the American people, I know my constituents say, "Hell no, you shouldn't cancel loans."

03:08 And we need to starve off this when we see this kind of behavior on a college campus.

03:14 This is supposed to be a place where young people go to learn their vocation, to harness

03:21 their passion into something that makes them a productive citizen, not to make them a hate

03:25 monger.

03:26 And that's what we're finding right now.

03:29 Way more hate mongers being bred on America's college campuses with this anti-Semitic rhetoric

03:35 than we have people that are serious about a job.

03:39 I mean, to listen to these Columbia protesters worrying about getting arrested because they

03:45 have finals.

03:48 Actions have consequences, and you deserve to face the consequences for your actions.

03:54 On Tuesday night, when the police went into Columbia, there was a mixture of both students

03:59 and what Mayor Eric Adams called outside agitators arrested.

04:04 They weren't affiliated with Columbia University.

04:06 Do you have any indication of who these outside agitators are?

04:10 I have no proof, but let's face it, every time we have a situation in this country where

04:15 unrest is there, George Soros isn't too far behind with some of this liberal dark money.

04:23 You have these dark money organizations that fund, there's plenty of indication they were

04:28 involved in the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, very conveniently in

04:33 a place where there was great social unrest, pallets of brick somehow got delivered.

04:39 There's clearly solicitations out there for paid agitators to go to campuses to demonstrate.

04:46 There's money funding these efforts to move the students around from campus to campus

04:50 around New York City.

04:52 There is clearly a network putting money behind this effort.

04:58 Why someone would invest in this to create unrest, I really don't understand it myself.

05:05 I don't see how this helps our country be stronger, especially if they're supporters

05:11 of this president.

05:13 But we have to take our campuses back.

05:16 We have to reimagine what higher education actually is in America.

05:22 It's supposed to prepare people for jobs in the future, in their lives.

05:26 And right now, I'm not seeing that.

‘Anything He Says Is Laughable’: Langworthy Rips Bowman Over Criticism Of Police At College Protests

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