Republican Senator Jeff Flake calls out the GOP's silence during the birther conspiracy theory or the "lock her up!" chants.
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00:00And I wish that we as a party would have stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going along.
00:06A lot of people did stand up, but not enough.
00:19Lock her up is right.
00:22Our party, I wonder, you know, during rallies, when the chants lock her up,
00:29you know, we shouldn't be the party for jailing your political opponents.
00:34And anybody at that rally, anybody at those rallies, ought to stand up and say,
00:39that's inappropriate, we shouldn't be doing that.
00:41And I wish we as a party and elected officials would do more of that.
00:45Or when particularly ugly conspiracy theories go out, or simply fake news,
00:50stuff that is just demonstrably false, we ought to stand up and say, hey, that's just not right.