Video doesn't show U.S. Rep. Chip Roy grilling Vice President Kamala Harris

Ciara O'Rourke
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Statement: “Crowd erupts as Chip Roy grills Kamala Harris as she lies in Congress” in video.

Rep. Chip Roy is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. He did not grill Vice President Kamala Harris at a committee hearing last month. She wasn't even present at the meeting.
Rep. Chip Roy is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. He did not grill Vice President Kamala Harris at a committee hearing last month. She wasn't even present at the meeting.

A Feb. 1 House Judiciary Committee hearing drew news coverage in part because it was the committee’s first hearing of the new Congress with Republicans newly at the helm. But a Facebook post sharing footage from the hearing suggested something more dramatic happened: "CROWD ERUPTS as Chip Roy GRILLS Kamala Harris as she LIES in Congress. Hunter Biden IMPLICATED," the March 6 post says.

Roy, a Republican from Hays County, is a member of the committee and he appears in the clip the Facebook post shared. But he wasn’t grilling Harris, and onlookers were quiet.

The committee’s chairman, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called the hearing "The Biden Border Crisis." Harris wasn’t there. Among the four witnesses were two that Roy can be seen questioning in the clip: Brandon Dunn, co-founder of Forever 15 Project, a group aimed at spreading awareness about fentanyl poisoning, and Mark Dannels, sheriff of Cochise County in Arizona.

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This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: PolitiFact: Chip Roy didn't grill Kamala Harris at judiciary hearing