Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Ron Johnson
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INGRAHAM: Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson joins us now. Senator, first of all, there was only one night of rioting? I was in D.C., OK. That's not true, and she's the mayor. So why is she so obviously committed to this unequal enforcement of the law?
SEN. RON JOHNSON, (R-WI): It's hard to say. She really didn't provide any answers. I was actually pretty shocked that she couldn't tell me some level of damage assessment to her own city.
But again, they want this narrative that there were thousands of armed insurrectionists intent on overthrowing the government, and they want to completely sweep under the rug the riots that took place in something like 140 different cities in America. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, we had about 40 businesses, different establishments burnt to the ground. A couple of people died in those. But a couple dozen people died during those riots, 2,000 law enforcement officers injured, $2 billion worth of property damage, but they want to sweep that all under the rug and concentrate all their time and effort and resources on bringing to justice the people who breached the Capitol.
INGRAHAM: Apparently today, some grandmother was forced to plead guilty to parading. I guess the charge was parading inside the capital. Really? We've got the photos going around by the FBI, this granny. All summer long we were saying, wait, where's all the facial recognition software being used in Seattle and Portland? Where is it? We never saw it. But old granny has to plead guilty to parading. I don't know, does she have a baton like in a nice parade, or was it a mean parade? I don't know what she was doing.
JOHNSON: Of course. And Portland, we know they offered them deferred resolution agreements. In other words, they are not going to prosecute them as long as they, I guess, stay clean. But so many people, so many of the rioters in the summer were let go, no bail. Vice President Harris, of course, encouraged one group to provide funds to provide a bail so people could get right back on the streets and riot again. So again, there's huge disparity.
We're still not getting information out of the attorney general. We certainly didn't get any information out of Mayor Bowser today. But we're going to keep pressing because I want to make sure that the authorities who are administering this unequal justice realize that people are looking over their shoulders, and we're going to hold them accountable.
INGRAHAM: We're almost out of time, but apparently Nancy Pelosi's deputy chief of staff tonight said that she's going to announce whether she's going to create a select committee this week on January 6th. She wants to have a bipartisan commission, but Republicans are blocking. Senator, yes or no, do we know how many people are being held in solitary confinement still? Because that was an issue before. Yes or no? We don't know, do we.
JOHNSON: It sounds like everyone in the D.C. jails. But I think 39. But one thing --
INGRAHAM: When we come, the Last Bite. It's 39? OK. Last Bite.
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INGRAHAM: What's the voting bill the Democrats are trying to jam through really about? Here is freshman Congressman Jamaal Bowman.
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REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN, (D-NY): HR-1 is the North Star. If we deliver, we maintain power in 2022. If we don't and we show the inability to deliver, then we risk losing power and risk this moment in American history to really push a progressive, Democratic agenda.
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INGRAHAM: John King is like, let's move on to the next guest.
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