Mike Rogers: “When you assault a police officer, you are a criminal.”

“And we have political prisoners in jail to this day, you know. So I must, I'm going to take a very unpopular position here and I'm going to disagree with you, and I'll tell you why. When you assault a police officer, you are a criminal. Correct? When you break a window to get into a place you are not authorized to be in, you are a criminal.” (00:44–00:49)

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