On Thursday, a staffer for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) hit a Fox News crew member with an umbrella as they attempted to question the far-left congresswoman about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming to speak in front of Congress.
The incident happened after Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram began asking Tlaib a question about the event which caused the aide to deploy the umbrella and tried to block him.
After Pergram dodged the umbrella, he moved around to Tlaib’s other side and asked: “What happens if Netanyahu comes to speak? Is that a mistake by the Speaker to extend this request? What do you think of the Democratic leaders agreeing to that request as well?”
“Would you attend?” he asked. “Would you protest in any form?”
Tlaib refused to answer until the staffer repositioned himself to block the person holding the camera.
“I don’t know, inviting a war criminal to Congress is a sham,” she answered. “It’s shameful.”
In the video, it appears that the aide hit the cameraman with the umbrella, which the cameraman called out but the staffer denied.
“We have it on video, guys,” Pergram said.
Pergram then went up to a police officer who was standing there and said: “He hit him with the umbrella. That’s assault.”
“I mean, this is ridiculous,” another member of the Fox News crew said.
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