A clip of a confrontation between conservative activist Candace Owens and Rep. Ted Lieu
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“In less than 24 hours, this video is the most watched C-SPAN Twitter video from a House hearing (4.47 million views),” Jeremy Art, C-SPAN’s social media senior specialist, said on Twitter.
In less than 24 hours, this video is the most watched C-SPAN Twitter video from a House hearing (4.47 million views).
— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) April 10, 2019
It is not the most watched C-SPAN video from a House hearing ever. It needs another 5 million views to get there ---> https://t.co/HCB8Mecfw3 https://t.co/i4LYuQQK2H
During the exchange, Lieu questioned the appropriateness of Owens’s presence at the hearing, playing a clip of her from December discussing the difference between "nationalism" and "globalism" using Adolf Hitler as an example.
"If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well — OK, fine," she said, and suggested that the Nazi leader erred in trying to expand beyond Germany.
Owens responded by accusing Lieu of believing "that black people are stupid” and accusing him of not playing the “full clip,” prompting House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler
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Art noted that the clip of Owens's exchange with Lieu was 5 million views short of the network’s most-watched overall video from a House hearing, which was a clip of Rep. Katherine Clark
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The Owens-Lieu clash comes almost two weeks after Rep. Adam Schiff
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The record for Senate clips is Sen. Kamala Harris
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Updated at 2:47 p.m.