Derrick Van Orden: “A speaker has never been vacated in the history of our…”

“But if you think about this now, put yourself in their shoes. I'm not justifying this decision, but this has never happened in the history of our nation, ever. A speaker has never been vacated in the history of our nation. So being able to take a knee and hydrate, that's the thing we say in the SEAL teams. Sometimes you take a knee and you drink water and just kind of understand what's going on in the battle space.” (22:06–22:11)

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