Cenk Uygur
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Tea Partier: "Shoot" Senator Who Wants Immigration Reform
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June 1, 2013
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3:34Now Playing"In a Tea Party-sponsored conference call held on Wednesday night, a participant called for the assassination of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over her support for immigration reform. Prominent conservative policymakers Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)'s communications director Stephen Miller and Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector also joined the call, hosted by the conservative Eagle Forum group."*
On a conference call, two tea party activists joked that the only was to get Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to change her mind about immigration reform is to "shoot her." The response was laughter. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and John Iadarola break it down.
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