I just have to say that I object strenuously to your use of the word hilarious to me this feels a lot like your reaction to being named and in one of these manifestos now you're of course not responsible for the words of somebody writing that document but I do think that laughing at it is a real problem because these are real families that are impacted by this violence and I think our efforts towards talking about this have to start from a place of mutual respect which is what I've heard from from this side of the table now the reason we don't have those numbers I want those numbers as much as you do but the number to say the numbers don't show something is simply not supported by the data okay and I have 38 seconds left miss Mulligan if you can if you want to respond within that time the only thing I would add is that it's in the name terrorism domestic terrorism it terrorizes us it terrorizes us in our homes it terrorizes us in our schools and and to the points made by the other panelists it is disproportionate to its impact on any individual life and it's not you reject the idea it's something that doesn't matter or it doesn't really matter okay all right so here's where we are every every member now has had five minutes in okay and mr. clay so we have two members who are not so I'm gonna go to the G members who have not yet and will give an opportunity for a closing thought to any member who wants before we get my next two responders mr. Matt mr.
meadows mr. meadows okay mr. meadows and excellent mr.
clay then to you mr. Drmmond miss Owens obviously this is a gang up on you you know we're giving these witnesses the ability to do a rebuttal on you and so you know I I find it unfair miss Ballou I mean you know candidly for you to show mutual respect and then you to go after miss Owens it's not appropriate so Miss Owens you can have four minutes and 34 seconds to respond however I'll yield thank you I believe miss Owens when you use the word hilarious it was in it was referencing the fact that no one had asked you a question it wasn't to the subject matter of hearing is that right that is correct and for happened to have another witness insinuate something that is not accurate is just not appropriate mr. chairman for how witnesses are supposed to behave in front of this committee I also think you didn't say it doesn't matter about the subject matter of today's hearing you said there are other subjects that matter as well and maybe we should spend some time on those is that accurate that is correct and they matter much much much much more and I have said that I said that in my opening and I will say it again you know that white supremacy and white nationalism is nowhere near ranks nowhere near the top of the issues that are facing black America and the reason that you are bringing them up in this room is because it is attempt to make the election all about race as the Democrat in my case not carries arise my mode mr.
chairman it's my time it's my time you've got your time mr. Moore second every four years you bring up race and you knew exactly what I meant when I said hilarious and you just tried to do live what the media does all the time to Republicans to our president and to conservatives but you tried to manipulate what I said to fit your narrative okay I was not referring to the subject matter that is hilarious I said it's hilarious that we are sitting in this room today and I've got two doctors and a missus and nobody can give us real numbers that we can respond to so we can assess how big of a threat this is because you know that it is not as big of a threat as you were trying to make it out to be so you can manipulate and the audacity of you to bring up the Christ Church shooting manifesto and make it seem as if I laughed at people that were slaughtered by a homicidal maniac maniac is in my opinion absolutely despicable and I think that we should be above that to try to assign reality or any meaning to a homicide homicidal maniac writing a manifesto which by the way let the record show also stated Spyro the Drgon the child's cartoon as a source of inspiration he also cited Nelson Mandela as a source of information I don't think I don't think that Nelson Mandela has inspired mosque shootings you can correct me if you think I'm wrong you won't you would rather assign meaning to a homicidal maniac than to actually address that I said to the things that I said today that are actually harming black America number one father absence number two the education system and the illiteracy rate illegal immigration ranks high aboard ranks high white supremacy and white nationalism if I had to make a list again of 100 things would not be on it this hearing in my opinion is a farce and it is ironic that you're sitting here and you're having three Caucasian people testify and tell you what their expertise are do I know my expertise are black in America I've been black in America my whole life all 30 years and I can tell you that you guys have done the exact same thing every four years ahead of an election cycle and it needs to stop oh I'll yield back Thank You mr.
