Marjorie Taylor Greene Takes Victory Lap After Brutal DOGE Hearing Featuring NPR, PBS Executives

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke to reporters following a DOGE Committee hearing featuring the CEOs of NPR and PBS.

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00:00The interviewer came back to that idea of a drag queue and you were saying that it aired on April 1st.

00:07Can you just give us more specifics? Obviously there's a point of difference here.

00:11Did you mean that it was on a website at that time or tell us what exactly you found?

00:15Yes, absolutely. Ms. Kerger stated under oath in her testimony that first she said it wasn't aired

00:22and then she said that it was aired on accident and clearly it was aired.

00:27We found that it had been put up on their website. That's their content.

00:33That is publicly funded and then later it was taken down.

00:38And I showed the video there of the drag queen targeting children ages 3 to 8 years old

00:44with a drag queen talking about his hips, swishing back and forth, shoulders, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.

00:50This is the type of propaganda and sexualizing of children that Americans have been so outraged over

00:57and it showed up big time as one of the number one issues in the 2024 election.

01:02The ad that was played where it said Democrats are for they them and we are for you resonated.

01:11It was the number one ad in November of 2024.

01:15America is sick of this and parents want their kids left alone.

01:20Congresswoman, you mentioned at the very end of your point that you would be funding the ball

01:26in preparation for public broadcasting. Obviously the oversight committee is not itself an appropriating body.

01:32What is the degree of support within your conference for that?

01:36Well, actually as a member of Congress we're all an appropriating body because we vote for funding

01:42with taxpayer money and the American people are $36 trillion in debt.

01:47The compounding interest this year is more than our military budget at $1 trillion.

01:51We don't need state sponsored media in America today and people in rural America,

01:58I come from rural America, my district is rural, they can get the news anywhere.

02:03They can get it on their smart phone and that's widely accessible.

02:07We definitely believe that left wing propaganda should not be basically a tax on the American people

02:14and if anybody wants to support these types of media and programming they can donate themselves

02:20and NPR and PBS have been fundraising off of this hearing in particular.

02:25Companies can advertise on radio and TV.

02:28Most of the companies that you work for and represent basically receive a lot of your funding on ad revenue

02:36whether it's clicking on social media, website based articles or TV programs where advertising dollars are spent.

02:45Those companies, if they want to pay ad dollars to NPR and PBS once they're private entities

02:52then they can continue to do so but the American people should not.

02:55Yes ma'am, but to the question of actually support within the conference, I'm wondering how...

02:58Widely supported. President Trump stated yesterday he supports it as well.

03:04Do you have a comment to Ms. Mayer's denouncement of her comments made about Hillary and Trump?

03:10Not really, her comments are clear. She's posted them all over her social media for years now

03:16and I'd also like to state NPR was very aware of her comments

03:21and any private company in an interview process and I can say that as an employer as well,

03:27you look at someone's background and their statements that are made publicly.

03:32This is a woman who made atrocious, hard left statements continuously, publicly on her own social media.

03:40Her retraction today wasn't really acceptable I don't think and nor was it an apology

03:46and NPR seems to not care either.

03:48Representative, another story that relates to the media today.

03:51Have you seen the new information revealed by the Atlantic magazine about the signal texts?

03:57We're talking about NPR and PBS, not the Atlantic.

04:02But do you believe that this was classified information that was shared on that day?

04:06No, the administration has said it is not classified information.

04:09I think this is a continuance of someone like you to try to push an issue that isn't even relevant

04:14and I think that we're carrying on. Thank you very much.

04:17Detail of timings of weapons, is that not classified information?

04:19You briefly mentioned Congresswoman Crockett's comments regarding Governor Abbott.

04:25Do you have anything else to add on that?

04:28Yeah, NPR today on their main page with their platform,

04:34never, it doesn't have a single article or news story about Congresswoman Crockett.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Takes Victory Lap After Brutal DOGE Hearing Featuring NPR, PBS Executives

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