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INGRAHAM: Now, sometimes the manipulation of language is designed to excuse and eventually to normalize aberrant behavior. Remember, back in 1999, when a popular president obliterated the boundaries of English and even managed to redefine the present tense of the verb "to be".
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The statement that there was no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form with President Clinton was an utterly false statement, is that correct?
BILL CLINTON, 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is.
INGRAHAM: How we ever recover from that one statement is beyond me still after all these years. Now fast forward to the present day language manipulation directly impacting our Second Amendment rights. Now, Biden's nominee to head the ATF unwittingly revealed how Democrats have used language to deprive us of basic freedoms when senators today pinned him down.
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA): Do you believe in banning assault weapons?
DAVID CHIPMAN, ATF DIRECTOR NOMINEE: I do, sir.
KENNEDY: OK. Define assault weapons.
CHIPMAN: Assault weapons would be something that members of Congress would define.
KENNEDY: Well, how do you define it? You're going to be running the agency.
CHIPMAN: Senator, the bill to ban assault weapons is dozens of pages.
KENNEDY: What is your definition of an assault?
CHIPMAN: There's no way I could define an assault weapon.
KENNEDY: Give me your definition.
CHIPMAN: I can give you one definition.
KENNEDY: If you won't answer my question, how can I vote for you? I'm done, Mr. Chairman. I don't think I'm going to give an answer.
INGRAHAM: Oh. When Senator Tom Cotton got his shot, he hit a bull's eye.
SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR): Can you tell me, what is an assault weapon? How would you define it if you're the chair - of the head of the ATF, how have you defined it over the last several years as your role as a gun control advocate?
CHIPMAN: I know there's a demand letter three program, which requires multiple reports. ATF in that program has defined an assault rifle as any semi-automatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of .22, which would include a .223, which is largely the AR-15 round.
COTTON: I'm amazed that that might be the definition of assault weapon that would basically cover every single modern sporting rifle in America today.
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