Troy Nehls: “We were there to have meaningful debate over the issue of…”

“Good afternoon, Marnie. It was really a shocking display of just violent protesting. We were all called there was the opening session of Congress was at like one o' clock and We were there to have meaningful debate over the issue of the day. And within an hour or so, what I noticed is that there were many personnel, uniformed police personnel as well as plain clothes personnel.” (01:05–01:10)

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