‘Face The Nation’ Gets Tense After Brennan Accused GOP Rep Of Inciting Pelosi Attack

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Things erupted on ‘Face The Naiton’ host Margaret Brennan tried to accuse GOP rep, Tom Emmer of somehow inspiring political violence—Specifically, Brennan was referring to the attack on Paul Pelosi. This part of the segment begins with Emmers pointing out that the majority of Americans are concerned with the direction the country is headed and nervous about the upcoming elections.

Brennan, of course, tried to paint Emmers as an alleged ‘election denier’ but he pushed through her questions. In response, Brennan shared a video from Emmers’s Twitter page where he was exercising his second amendment rights while calling on lawmakers to ‘fire’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Just a note, this was shared several days before Pelosi’s husband was attacked and the two are clearly not related—Though, Brennan tried her best to link them together.

“On your Twitter feed, you posted this video we’re going to show just a few days ago where you’re firing a gun and it says, enjoyed exercising my second amendment rights, hashtag fire Pelosi. Why is there a gun in a political ad at all?” Brennan snarked.

Emmer then turned it around on Brennan by asking why she never asked similar questions to Democrats after one of  Bernie Sanders shot and almost killed then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

“It’s interesting Margaret that we’re talking about this morning when a couple of years back when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Steve Scalise,” Emmer asked.

“We did extensive coverage of what happened to Steve Scalise,” Brennan snapped back but never addressed how she did not take on Democrats’ harsh rhetoric surrounding the violent attack.

“Nobody tried to equate Democrats’ rhetoric,” Emmer noted that she did not respond to his question.

Brennan tried desperately to turn the focus back to Emmer’s tweet but he didn’t give up so easily. “I never saw anyone after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter,” Emmers tried to pin Brannan on the subject once again before she caved and switched topics.

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The House Speaker’s husband was attacked and hospitalized Friday after an assailant broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and reportedly attacked him with a hammer.

The attacker was later named by police as David DePape, 42, a conspiracy theorist who lived in the Berkeley area of California. Spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement that Paul Pelosi, 82, was “violently assaulted,” but was expected to make a full recovery.  “The assailant is in custody and the motive for the attack is under investigation,” Hammill added.

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