Kicker: Drowning out protesters

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Well, not all the protesters on Capitol Hill this week were from the left. As Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before a House committee, a right-wing protester starting shouting.

AUDIO: [woman shouting] Regular order–Order (three gavel strikes)

So one lawmaker on the panel, Missouri Republican Billy Long, who happens to my congressman, thought, if the protester was going to shout down lawmakers, he’d return the favor.

You are going to find real fast what Congressman Long did before he became Congressman Long.

WOMAN: That is why he is censoring and shadow banning …

LONG: [auctioneer chatter] I yield back. (laughs)

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A woman disrupts the the Capitol Hill hearing on Twitter. (C-SPAN)

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