BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy OUT OF CONTROL — Congressman Says He Hit Him

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One Republican lawmaker has just stated, and I mean just stated, that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hit him intentionally, hit him hard

and he said there was a lot of Ennisces who saw this

Kevin McCarthy, for his part, has denied it. I want to ask you guys, first of all, to watch this clip

and then I want you to leave your comments and let me know who you believe

and what you think about this wild and insane story. Go ahead and take a look

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God bless you. Take care, everybody. And apparently had a bit of a bit of a

a dust up in the hallways himself with Kevin McCarthy. And I have Congressman Bertrand with us here right now

So Congressman explained to us what happened with you and Kevin McCarthy. Well, I was doing an interview with Claudia from NPR, a lovely lady

and when she was asking me a question. And at that time, I got elbowed in the back, and it kind of caught me off guard

because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back and there was Kevin And for a minute I was kind of What heck just happened And then I you know I chased after him of course He a as I stated many times he a bully with million in a security detail

You know, he's the type of guy that when you're a kid would throw a rock over the fence

and run home and hide behind his mom's skirt. And he just, you know, from behind that kind of stuff

You know, that's not the way we handle things in these Tennessee. If we have a problem with somebody, I'm going to look him in the eye and talk to him

Okay, so he walked down the hallway, hit you with his elbow

Yeah, you can go on Claudia's Twitter account. It pretty much, or X account, it's very accurate

Okay, so then just explain. So you chased him? What do you mean you chased? Well, I just ran after

He might just like, what the heck, you know, why'd you do that? You know, because it was, like I said, if you've ever been hitting the kidneys, it's a little different

You don't have to hit very hard to cause a little bit of pain, a lot of pain. and so I and he just of course um as he always did does he just uh denies it or

blame somebody else or something you know and it was just a little heated but i just backed

off because there was any i saw no reason i wasn't gaining anything from it and then everybody

saw it so it didn't really matter like you responded to you yeah yeah he just acted like you know

what are you talking about you know who are you to you know that kind of thing and it's just

you know i think that that symptomatic of the problems that he had in his short tenure as speaker and were you face when you have this interaction yeah but there security detail and I get it They were doing their job so it wasn exactly like he didn

he wouldn't turn around and face me. He kept scurry and trying to keep people between me and him

And then so, where did he? I just let it go at that point

It wasn't. Were you yelling? He was, yeah, I raised my voice to him. I thought it was appropriate

And I just don't expect a guy who was at one time three steps away

from the White House to sucker hit you with a sucker punch in the hallway

And did he raise his voice back to you? Yeah, just that high-pitched kind of thing, I believe, and that was about it

And did you walk into his office? How did this act? No, he just kept on walking down the hall. I don't know where his office is now

And, you know, he had his detail and his posse, so to speak, was with him

So did his detail try to stop you? Do what? Did his detail try to stop you

The detail kind of got, one guy got between us there towards the end

but I wasn't looking to knock him out or anything. I just wanted to let him know

I know it was him. Were you injured? I don't know injured, man

Does it hurt me do it hurt? Yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact, it still hurts because it was a shot to the kidneys

And it still hurts, oddly enough. It's not anything I'm going to, I'm not going to, probably not going to do an ethics complaint on him

He's not worth it. You know, he's going to be gone here either after Christmas or next year

And like I said, you know, he's got the 17. million dollars and he going to keep you know he be he already messing in everybody races and we all know that Are you accusing him of assault Am I accusing him Of assault I don know Ask a lawyer

It's over as far as I'm concerned. He said to our colleague Melanie and Zanona that this was a tight hallway

He denies this interaction. He says a tight hallway, and I bumped into him. He says that this is not an intentional thing

There's 435 congressman. I was one of eight that voted against him

That hallway was, there's plenty of room. you can walk for for side by side he chose to do what he did and you know it's it'll end right here

I'm sure it'll just be a little little a little asterisk on his storied career and he said he told me

last week you are only concerned about press and policy that's why you've voted him out you're just

concerned about the press yeah and that's why he held a exclusive press conference with CNN what do you

mean I mean he doesn't think that you did it for any real reason other than to bolster your own profile I've gone through

the reasons he just doesn't he doesn't keep his word and i think that's this is pretty much um

it shows what he did it just shows what he did and it just it's just the way it is with him he's not

you know he could have gone out on top and he's chosen to go this route and i and actually i feel

sorry for him i pray for him every day you might not believe that but i do i pray for him and i um

i hope he finds some some happiness in his life yeah all right i let you go i just want to talk to you

as well thanks you thanks for your time and