{"id":2008318,"date":"2023-08-22T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-posts-interview-transcript-after-ramaswamy-says-he-was-misquoted-on-9-11\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:02:32","slug":"reporter-posts-interview-transcript-after-ramaswamy-says-he-was-misquoted-on-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-posts-interview-transcript-after-ramaswamy-says-he-was-misquoted-on-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy clarifies misquote on 9\/11, interview transcript shared by reporter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freporter-posts-interview-transcript-after-ramaswamy-says-he-was-misquoted-on-9-11%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>A Controversial Interview with Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy<\/h2>\n<p>A journalist who recently\u200c interviewed Republican presidential candidate\u2064 Vivek \u2062Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">posted<\/a> the audio and transcript of the \u200cinterview after Ramaswamy claimed he was misquoted for making controversial \u200ccomments about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think\u2064 it is legitimate to say\u2062 how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the twin towers. Maybe the answer\u200c is zero. It probably is zero for \u200ball I know, right?\u200d I \u200dhave no reason\u200d to think \u2063it was anything other than zero,&#8221; Ramaswamy told the\u2064 Atlantic in\u2064 what critics \u2062took \u2064as the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-posts-interview-transcript-after-ramaswamy-says-he-was-misquoted-on-9-11\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy clarifies misquote on 9\/11, interview transcript shared by reporter.\">2024 candidate spreading conspiracy theories<\/a> about 9\/11.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican\u200c Debate: \u200dRNC Announces the Eight GOP 2024 Contenders Who Made the Cut<\/h3>\n<p>But when CNN host\u2064 Kaitlan Collins questioned Ramaswamy on \u2063Monday night about his comments, he said the Atlantic was &#8220;playing the same game as \u200dCNN&#8221; and the quote of him was &#8220;wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I said is on Jan. 6, I do believe that\u200b there were many federal agents in the field, and\u200d we deserve to know who they are,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;On 9\/11, what I&#8217;ve said is that the government lied,\u2062 and this is incontrovertible evidence, Kaitlan:\u200c The government lied \u200cabout Saudi\u2063 Arabia&#8217;s involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy then slammed \u200cJohn Hendrickson for not sharing the audio of the interview with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked that reporter to send the recording \u200bbecause it was on the record. He refused to do\u2063 it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But we had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy's team clarifies controversial 9\/11 remarks.\">free-flowing conversation<\/a>. The truth is \u2063there\u200d are lies the government has\u200d told about\u2063 9\/11. But it&#8217;s not the \u200bones that somebody\u2063 put in my mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson\u2064 hit \u200dback on Tuesday afternoon\u200d when he posted the full transcript and audio of his interview with Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our discussions were often challenging, \u200dbut they were always respectful,&#8221; Hendrickson\u2062 wrote about his Ramaswamy interviews. &#8220;With Ramaswamy\u2019s permission, and in keeping \u2063with standard \u2063journalistic \u2064practice, I recorded all of our interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the audio and transcript, Ramaswamy \u2063is\u2063 asked, &#8220;When you talk about all \u200bthe things, we can handle the truth about X, you know, and\u2064 you list\u200b off a bunch of stuff \u2014 one of them that you \u200bsaid last night\u2063 is: &#8216;We can handle the truth about Jan. 6.&#8217; What is the truth about Jan. 6 that you\u2019re referring to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which Ramaswamy does answer with the \u2062quote \u2064that \u2064Collins read aloud during her interview that Ramaswamy\u200b said\u2064 was wrong\u2063 before \u200bdiscussing \u200dthe Jan. 6 commission. \u2063&#8221;I think it\u200d is legitimate to \u200csay, &#8216;How many police, how \u200cmany federal\u200c agents were on the planes\u2062 that hit the twin towers?&#8217; Like, I\u2064 think \u2062we want \u2014 maybe\u200d the answer\u2064 is \u200bzero, probably\u200c is zero for\u200d all I know, right?&#8221; he said. \u2064&#8221;I \u200chave no reason \u200dto\u200b think it was \u200banything \u2063other \u200dthan\u2063 zero. But\u200b if we\u2019re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9\/11, we have a 9\/11 commission, absolutely that should be an\u2062 answer the \u2062public \u200dknows the answer to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, if\u2063 we\u2019re \u2064doing a Jan. 6 commission, \u2064absolutely, \u2062those should be questions\u200c that we should get to the bottom of. And there can\u2019t be hush-hush, separate. It\u2062 shouldn\u2019t be outside the commission, leaked\u2064 to some media personality the hours of footage,&#8221; Ramaswamy continued. \u2062&#8221;No, \u200bthis is \u200ctransparent. These \u2063are the\u200b doors that were open. Here are the people that opened the doors, to \u2062whom? Here are the people who were armed. Here are the people\u200d who were unarmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK \u200dHERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson said he stands by his reporting. &#8220;The quote is correct,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, though, continued to\u200b defend his controversial remarks during \u2062his CNN\u2062 interview. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe the government has told us the truth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Again, I&#8217;m driven by evidence and data. What I&#8217;ve seen in \u2062the last several years is we have to be skeptical of what the government does tell us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist shared the audio and transcript of an interview with Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who accused the journalist of misquoting him regarding the Sept. 11 attacks. 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