just disgusting congressman jeff van
drew joins me right now he sits on the
house homeland security committee
good morning congressman thanks very
much for being here this
tape is chilling how did it make you
feel when you first came home and
pressed your machine
and heard this well actually i i it was
my wife who pressed the machine she was
home
i was in washington so that's what
particularly concerned me and of course
you know maria i bargained for this i
became a congressman
unfortunately it's becoming more and
more prevalent
it doesn't worry me i'm standing for
america i'm going to stand for what i
believe
and nobody's going to make me afraid
nobody's going to make me worry about it
but there are two issues here that are
so different
and so vile that that i said in this
case
i wasn't just gonna do what i would
normally do and have done
is speak to the police and let them do
what they would do number one
um not only did he threatened
me but he threatened my wife literally
to sexually harass her so real quickly
and i'll say it because i want people to
understand this
this man is a free lance reporter and
does
work for the ocean city sentinel and
what we found
out afterward what really bothered me
after we got that death tape
was that he was writing op-eds
editorials stories for this newspaper
and
in them they contained all this violence
and filth so
in those official op-eds that went out
in thousands and thousands of newspapers
he said that literally how would my wife
feel if she was grabbed by her crotched
picked up and slammed down slammed down
on the car
how would the tickle feel um he said
that i was a traitor
and traders deserve to be executed he
said that my home
should be stormed how would i feel if my
home was stormed
and my family and my family was violated
that's what he actually said it in print
and an
editor and a publisher
allowed that and thought it was okay
okay that's on board so i want to know
what you're going to do
what recourse do you have stay with us
welcome back and we are back with new
jersey congressman jeff van drew
congressman you were just
showing us and sharing with us some of
the sick things that the
that this uh activist and and mob
has done to you what recourse do you
have now
well real quickly you can do anything
that you want to to me you can
say what you want you can disagree with
me you can threaten my life
but i will not tolerate that for my
family
my wife my children my grandchildren and
that's where the line is drawn in the
south jersey sand
so you know we are certainly going to
take recourse and i believe
press charges talk to our attorneys and
perhaps sue as well
this cannot be the new norm for america
for america journalism it is
just intolerable it's going to hurt our
society it's going to make us
worse and more violent to actually think
that these are things that can be
printed
in the newspaper or or in any way i mean
look at all of these
look at all of these attacks and you had
president biden saying that he wants
unity
unity okay transparency we've got none
of that he's doing things by one-party
rule 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus
passed with no no republican support
where are we in this country congressman
we're we're in a bad place we're on the
precipice i'm telling
everyone this future of democracy and
our republic
is in all our hands and we must come
together we must reverse course
we can't go this way or we're going to
lose the greatest
nation the shining light of the whole
world i i worry about it every single
day
this is the real deal and that's what
i've been saying all of
all of this as china is rising
congressman
and you know absolutely yeah they're
laughing at us
the other day they said we were stupid
and weak yeah
congressman's going to see us this
morning thank you sir