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Ron DeSantis: “I was a congressman, Jesse, years ago and just narrowly got…”

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'I'M VERY ANGRY': Ron DeSantis calls for a 'very quick death penalty' for Charlie Kirk's assassin

Published | Video Starts at 04:44

God knows we listen and we've heard enough. But to kill somebody because you don't like what they're saying? No, we're done with that. And there will be consequences for this. Well, I was a congressman, Jesse, years ago and just narrowly got out of the congressional baseball field when you had a deranged gunman shoot Steve Scalise and others. And, and he did that because he was a leftist and he didn't like that there were Republicans practicing baseball. (04:44–04:55)

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Asserts that Ron DeSantis narrowly escaped a shooting incident at a congressional baseball field.

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