00:02So are we all ready to go?
00:05All right.
00:07Okay, well, good afternoon, everybody.
00:09And thank you for joining us today.
00:11Yesterday, July 13th, marked one year since the tragedy that struck my hometown in Butler, Pennsylvania,
00:18when a gunman nearly assassinated President Trump.
00:21Tragically, he took the life of Corey Campatore and seriously wounded David Dutch and James Kopenhaver.
00:28Yesterday, I returned to the Butler Farm Showgrounds, where I was with the President a year ago.
00:35I met with the Campatore family during a celebration of Corey's life.
00:39They are incredibly strong, and I know all of us on stage continue to send our thoughts and prayers to them
00:46as we seek more answers about what actually happened that day.
00:51Now, we're here today to highlight New Resolution HR 571, which formally recognized the events of 2014 and July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.
01:02The resolution also condemns the rise in political violence we have seen across our nation over the last year,
01:11from the assassination attempts against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and West Palm Beach, Florida,
01:17to the attacks against Governor Josh Shapiro in April, and to the deadly attacks on the Minnesota State lawmakers just last month.
01:27Let's be clear. We must stand up together to oppose violence against our nation's leaders all across each party.
01:36And I want to thank my co-lead on the resolution, RSC Chairman August Pflueger from Texas.
01:42When we talk about this, though, we can have as many resolutions as we want to bring it forward.
01:48And I've heard person after person, politician after politician get up and say,
01:53I am absolutely appalled by the violence that's taking place in this country today.
01:58And we've got to stop using that type of language.
02:02And with 24 hours, they're out talking again about who should not be sitting in certain offices.
02:09So it's one thing to have a resolution. It's one thing to be resolved the fact we're not going to keep talking like this.
02:15When I'm asking everybody that's in the Congress, everybody that's in elected office, please watch what you say.
02:23Don't start off saying we should never do this and then within 24 hours go out and make statements again that incite people.
02:32That's a false lead. It's a false premise.
02:36Our resolution is an attempt to get people to speak the way they should speak.
02:42In America, the way we settle things is by votes.
02:49So it's my pleasure to be with all these people behind me today because they're all feeling the same way.
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