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During a town hall on Tuesday night, Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) was shouted down by pro-Palestinian protestors.
Transcript
00:00And acting like you want to get physical. This is not going to work. So with that being said, I am going to bring up Congressman Wesley Bell of District 1.
00:11So what I am going to do is we got these beads here. So I am going to try to keep walking on both sides of the stage so people can see.
00:41But let me just start by saying this. Let me just start by saying this. What I hear online when I talk to people is we want to talk. We want to ask questions. And so now we are here. So let's do that.
00:59Let me out there. Let me tell this to everyone in this room. Just stop talking. This is not your town hall. You can leave. If you don't want to be here, you can leave.
01:12Let me just say this. Please say this. Let me say this. The bottom line is, the bottom line is, and I am saying it because I see more folks on this side, but I am going to keep going back and forth.
01:24I am saying it. I am going to keep going back and forth. And I am going to keep going back and forth. The bottom line is, I say, our school board, is that our school board is not going to be the same.
01:38But we're not even willing to have conversations.
01:43And we gotta be in here to talk.
01:46Whatever the issue is, and let me just be clear,
01:49there are a lot of important issues
01:52that we have to deal with as a region.
01:56Stop, listen, we're gonna get to them.
01:58We're not gonna duck any questions.
02:00You ducked up and you threw me out
02:01and there were any important issues.
02:03Listen, I really want you to be here
02:06because I actually want you to hear my conversations.
02:08When we talk about the questions.
02:10If you're not gonna need to step in everybody else,
02:12just go.
02:14Now, what I wanna say is,
02:16there are a lot of important issues in this region.
02:19And so, there's a lot of people
02:21who wanna talk about a lot of different issues.
02:23And we're not gonna be here all night,
02:25so we gotta get a chance to talk about all of those issues.
02:28So, that's what we're gonna do.
02:30We're gonna have conversations
02:32because what I wanna start off with
02:34and tell you about is,
02:37while we're sitting here being divided
02:40and fighting one another,
02:42we got other folks out there
02:44that are taking our democracy from us
02:46right before our eyes.
02:48Right before our eyes.
02:52The Supreme Court was gone for a generation.
02:57The Supreme Court was gone for a generation.
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