Sen. Hyde-Smith rebuffs SAFER Banking question after embracing "public hangings" in 2018

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith rides the escalator in the Senate basement. Photo: Matt Laslo

Who?

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) 

LISTEN: Laslo & Hyde-Smith

Ask a Pol asks:

What do you think about the DEA — Drug Enforcement Administration — moving to reschedule marijuana?

Key Hyde-Smith: 

“I don't do the hallway interviews,” Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith told Ask a Pol. 

Sen. Hyde-Smith has refused to answer questions on behalf of her Mississippi constituents while in Washington, DC since her sympathies for the confederacy surfaced back in 2018. Source: CNN.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

SCENE: After voting on the Senate floor, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is making her way back to her office via the Capitol’s underground tram when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches her briefly before the tram doors shut in his face.

Matt Laslo: “Where are you on the DEA rescheduling marijuana?”

Cindy Hyde-Smith: “I don't do the hallway interviews.”

Hyde-Smith stopped doing hallway interviews in 2018 after she embraced public hangings.

source: Lamar White Jr.

ML: “What do you think of the SAFER Banking Act?”

Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo uses his First Amendment right to ask a few questions to the junior senator from Mississippi, Ms. Hyde-Smith, who uses her First Amendment to laugh instead of speaking on behalf of the people of Mississippi.

source: CNN

ML: “Preciate ya, ma'am.”

Hyde-Smith keeps walking as Laslo laughs to himself as he greets one of her Senate colleagues.

ML: “How are you, sir.”

Andrey Beregovskiy and Walken Whalen contributed to this report.

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