Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Lauren Boebert
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HANNITY: And meanwhile, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez picking a fight with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and targeting her over her Twitter remarks about the dangers of government dependency.
Here with the reaction, he's with the American Conservative Union, he's their chairman, Matt Schlapp, along with the Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is with us.
I don't know, I don't think I'd mind if Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, the real speaker of the House, you know, started taking shots at me. I think we -- that would be a great pay-per-view event debate. I'd love to see it.
REP. LAUREN BOEBERT (R-CO): Absolutely, Sean. And if anything, if the socialist Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wants to be talk about anything right now, it should be Cuba. Let's see her trying to defend what's going on there right now.
She can't do it. This is a murderous regime and they are demanding liberty and freedom, and all she's doing is sitting on Twitter picking fights.
HANNITY: You know, Matt, I've been to many CPAC event. Ninety-eight percent approval rating for Donald Trump. I would say he's slipping.
MATT SCHLAPP, CHAIRMAN, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION: Yeah.
HANNITY: I mean, in all -- in the history of that poll, has there ever been 98 percent?
SCHLAPP: No, no. I had the great pleasure of briefing President Trump on the numbers before he took the stage. It's great when you can brief a leader on numbers like this. It's like, hey, they found one guy may be who said you're not doing quite as good as everyone else thinks. It was kind of amazing.
And, you know, what I -- what I thought about President Trump at this particular CPAC was he's, you know, finding his new stride. It was much less about being the leader of the Republican Party and much more about being the movement of this MAGA movement, of this conservative movement. He hit those themes and the Congresswoman Boebert knows that because she was there, over and over and over again.
And now, we have this big issue of the border, he is there as the leader, as the -- giving the pushback on the open border. When it comes to the question of taking on big tech, he's there as the leader. CPAC has joined him on this lawsuit.
And, of course, what does Google do and YouTube as soon as we join the lawsuit? Mysteriously, Sean, all of our CPAC programming can't be on YouTube. I'm shocked. I mean, can you imagine?
HANNITY: Let me -- yeah, exactly. Then that should be a concern for everybody because that's just an in-kind donation and nothing but political support for an agenda with Section 230 liability protection.
I do like the fact that you've taken CPAC out of the swamp, out of the sewer. I hope you keep it out of there forever moving forward.
SCHLAPP: I like it.
HANNITY: And obviously a very successful event, and, again, I've had the honor of participating in many over the years and you've been very gracious inviting me.
SCHLAPP: We want you back.
HANNITY: I'll come -- I'm there, I'll be there. I can't go every time but I'm going as often as I can.
Congresswoman, I'd like to see that debate. So if I offered airtime -- I'll stay out of it completely, I'll give a half hour airtime, just you and Cong -- I'll even give an hour -- you versus Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.
BOEBERT: Let's do it.
HANNITY: No moderator, I'll just sit there and say, all right, guys, we've got to take a break, we'll be right back. Introduce you and then shut up. We can -- or throw out a topic, the economy, throw in a topic.
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BOEBERT: This is a dream come true, Sean.
HANNITY: What's that?
BOEBERT: Yes. Well, you know, one thing that she was accusing me of is dismantling America's safety nets and I would like to make it very clear that the only ones who are dismantling America's safety nets are people like AOC with their $93 trillion Green New Deal and her -- her woke cohorts with a $6 trillion infrastructure plan.
These safety nets are not going anywhere, Sean. This is not what makes America great. Handouts and welfare doesn't make America great, freedom does.
HANNITY: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ball is in your court, you're welcome. A free-flowing, real live debate, no moderator, just you and Congresswoman Boebert for the full hour. Would you like to join us?
All right. Matt, good to see you as well. Thank you.
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