Katie Britt explains ‘Alabama versus Auburn’ exchange with Democrat on Senate floor
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. was recently asked on Fox show Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy about the heated exchange caught on video between her and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
“It looked like an Alabama versus Auburn kind of conversation, except very, very one sided,” Gowdy said to Britt.
“I’m not going to ask you about a private conversation, but it looked like you got your point across to Chris.”
In a video taken last week circulating online, Britt can be seen passionately gesturing to Murphy, pointing her finger at his face several times.
Business Insider’s Bryan Metzger said that the exchange lasted at least ten minutes prior to Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. bringing forward his resolution to demand the Trump administration release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
But it remains unclear what Britt and Murphy, who are both members of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Appropriations, were actually debating.
“I’ll allow the contents of the conversation… to stay between the two of us,” she told Gowdy Sunday.
“Clearly, incredibly passionate, both of us are about various issues, many times sitting on opposite sides of the aisle or perspective of those.”
“Where you can see eye to eye with someone and have common ground move it forward,” she continued.
“But when you don’t, you let them know. And I think he saw that firsthand.”
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