Will Congress Stop the Steal?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. Todd Stars.

**Todd Starnes** (0:30)
Well, I just have to tell you, this hearing on Capitol Hill right now is fascinating. The dare I say riveting must hear radio. Hello everybody, welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program. Such an honor to have you with us border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain. This hearing today on Capitol Hill House Judiciary, and we're going to be playing some audio from this hearing in just a matter of moments. And it is really breathtaking as we watch all of this, as we watch all of this unfold. I'm talking about the hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center. And for many, many, many, many, many years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been working a grift. And the Justice Department allegations are stunning. The grand jury indictments are just off the charts. But what's happening today as members of Congress are now grilling some of the top executives at the Southern Poverty Law Center, we are now discovering that this organization that was supposed to be all about protecting people from racism and all of this kind of stuff, turns out they're the ones that were actually fomenting all of it. In other words, they were out there raising hundreds of millions of dollars. Do you understand that the magnitude of the money here is just off the charts? We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. That the Southern Poverty Law Center was bringing in from all of these left-wing groups. The argument was that racism today in America is worse than it was during the Civil War days. That's what they were trying to convince people.
They were using all of these stories. For example, most recently, the Charlottesville, Virginia incident. Now we know that the Southern Poverty Law Center was actually bankrolling all of these things.
So, in essence, there was really no, there is no major race problem in America, at least not when it comes to white people being racist. No, that's not an issue anymore. It's not. It's just simply not. But the Southern Poverty Law Center wanted you to believe otherwise. And that is the focus of this hearing as we try to get to the bottom of it, because the Southern Poverty Law Center put many, many, many lives in danger. All of them conservatives. Going after organizations who are very dear friends of mine. As a matter of fact, the Family Research Council, our good friend Tony Perkins is going to be joining us a little bit later on. He is the president of Family Research Council. A domestic terrorist showed up.
Gosh, when was this? Back in 2015? We'll get the exact date. A domestic terrorist showed up with a map printed out by the Southern Poverty Law Center that had a list of all the hate groups in America. And this guy showed up at the front door of the Family Research Council headquarters, a beautiful building near the White House. The guy was loaded with weapons and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. And the guy's plan was to slaughter as many people as he could inside the Family Research Council building. And then he was going to take the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and he was going to smear their faces with the sandwiches and leave the bodies. That was his plan.
Well, thank God that there was a security guard at the building. He got shot, suffered major injuries, but he was able to stop the gunman from killing people, including Tony Perkins, the president of Family Research Council. I mean, this is how despicable and devious the Southern Poverty Law Center is. These people are really, really, really, really bad people, and it's just unacceptable.
So just a few moments ago, we had some testimony from Chip Roy, and Chip Roy is one of those that's just grilling folks. Let's take a listen.

**Chip Roy** (4:43)
Mr. Fair, in 2012, the Family Research Council was attacked and the guard in the front of the building was shot.
The head of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, made quite note at the time of Southern Property Law Center's involvement in that and putting Family Research Council on their so-called hate map. Has the SPLC ever acknowledged that its designation contributed to that attack?

**SPEAKER_5** (5:16)
Congressman Roy?

**Chip Roy** (5:18)
Yes or no?

**SPEAKER_5** (5:19)
I can't answer that question with a yes or no. You ask me if I...

**Chip Roy** (5:23)
Did they retract, correct, or reconsider the listing of the Family Research Council on its hate map?

**SPEAKER_5** (5:28)
The Family Research Council is listed on our hate map because it meets the criteria.